Improving palliative care in the home and community: Building CAPACITI (Community Access to PAlliative Care via Interprofessional primary care Teams Intervention)

  • Burge, Frederick I. (PI)
  • Jakda, Ahmed A. (CoPI)
  • Seow, Hsien H. (CoPI)
  • Barwich, Doris Berta (CoPI)
  • Brouwers, Melissa Christine M.C. (CoPI)
  • Howard, Michelle Isabel (CoPI)
  • Kelley, Mary Louise (CoPI)
  • Kilbertus, Frances F. (CoPI)
  • Kortes-miller, Katherine Margaret K.M. (CoPI)
  • Marshall, Denise (CoPI)
  • Pond, Gregory Russell G.R. (CoPI)
  • Sinding, Christina C. (CoPI)
  • Stajduhar, Kelli Isabel K. (CoPI)
  • Urquhart, Rob R. (CoPI)

Projet: Research project

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Description

Palliative care is care that emphasizes quality-of-life rather than curative treatment for patients with advanced illness. Particularly home-based palliative care is important because 80% of patients want to die at home, yet 65% die in hospital. Strong evidence shows home-based palliative care-delivered by physicians working in primary care teams-reduces pain and symptoms, improves quality-of-life, and reduces health care costs. Yet

StatutTerminé
Date de début/de fin réelle4/1/19 → 12/31/23

Financement

  • Institute of Health Services and Policy Research: 792 072,00 $ US

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Nursing(all)
  • Health Policy
  • Medicine (miscellaneous)

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