Measuring Nurses' Impact on Health Care Quality
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing care.
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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
National Program
Program to foster long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying persons and their families.
The Cost of Dying
November 22, 2009 | Story
CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.
IOM Recommends Steps for Better End-of-Life Care
September 2, 2002 | Program Result Report
The goals of the study were to strengthen public and professional understanding of what constitutes good care at the end of life and to encourage a stronger commitment to caring well for people as they die.
Conference Offers Ways to Improve Care for Patients Facing the End of Life
December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
Content Validity of the Pain and Quality Nursing Care Survey
May 1, 2007 | Journal Article
The Pain and Nursing Care Quality (PaNCQ) Survey instrument measured the impact of oncology nurses on patient satisfaction with quality of care related to pain management.
Death is Certain, Strategy Isn't
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
October 15, 2009 | Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
How Fast and What Type of Imaging Elderly Low-Back Pain Patients Get Linked to Patient/Physician Traits Not Clinical Indications
May 25, 2009 | News Release
Archives study underscores need for quality metrics to measure overuse of care.
A Story from the Pediatric Palliative Care Project
May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.