RIS ID
71675
Abstract
PCOC aims to assist services to improve the quality of the palliative care they provide through the analysis and benchmarking of patient outcomes. In this, the thirteenth PCOC report, data submitted for the January - June 2012 period are summarised and patient outcomes benchmarked to enable participating services to assess their performance and identify areas in which they may improve.
This report is broken into four sections:
Section 1 provides a summary of the data included in this report.
Section 2 summarises each of the four outcome measures and presents national benchmarking results for a selection of these measures.
Section 3 presents a more detailed analysis of the outcome measures and benchmarks.
Section 4 provides descriptive analysis at each of the patient, episode and phase data levels.
In each of the four sections, data and analysis for services in SA is presented alongside the national figures for comparative purposes. The national figures reflect all palliative care services who submitted data for the January - June 2012 period. A full list of these services can be found at www.pcoc.org.au
Publication Details
S. Bird, S. F. Allingham, M. R. Masso & M. Banfield, Patient Outcomes in Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - South Australia (Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, 2012).