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Patient and caregiver-reported assessment tools for palliative care: summary of the 2017 AHRQ Technical Brief.
This paper summarizes palliative care assessment tools completed by or with patients or caregivers, and identifies needs for future tool development and evaluation. It concluded that few to no tools address the spiritual, ethical, or cultural domains or patient-reported experience with end of life care. While some data exists on psychometric properties of tools, the responsiveness of different tools to change and/or comparisons between tools have not been evaluated.
AHRQ-funded; 290201500006I.
Citation: Aslakson R, Dy SM, Wilson RF .
Patient and caregiver-reported assessment tools for palliative care: summary of the 2017 AHRQ Technical Brief.
J Pain Symptom Manage 2017 Dec;54(6):961-72.e16. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.04.022.
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Keywords: Caregiving, Evidence-Based Practice, Palliative Care, Patient Experience, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
Furuno JP, Noble BN, Bearden DT
Feasibility of retrospective pharmacovigilance studies in hospice care: a case study of antibiotics for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
In this letter to the editor, the authors assert that pharmacovigilance may be useful to improve the evidence base for medication use in hospice care and an efficient alternative to expensive and logistically complicated clinical trials. They discuss the feasibility of retrospective pharmacovigilance studies in hospice care and provide a case study of antibiotics for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
AHRQ-funded; HS023366.
Citation: Furuno JP, Noble BN, Bearden DT .
Feasibility of retrospective pharmacovigilance studies in hospice care: a case study of antibiotics for the treatment of urinary tract infections.
J Palliat Med 2017 Apr;20(4):316-17. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2016.0531..
Keywords: Antibiotics, Evidence-Based Practice, Healthcare Utilization, Medication, Palliative Care, Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)