Responding to urgency of need in palliative care: The development and evaluation of a decision aid for palliative care triage
Aim
This multi-stage study aims to develop a decision aid for the efficient, transparent and equitable allocation of inpatient and community-based palliative care services.
Research Overview
Beginning with a qualitative re-exploration of clinical characteristics that indicate urgency, the first stage of the study will consist of focus groups with health professionals, carers and consumer representatives. Subsequent stages will include an online discrete choice experiment to determine how various factors should be weighted comparatively, a validity study of the decision aid developed to establish inter-rater reliability and face validity, and finally a post-implementation evaluation of the performance of the decision aid in everyday practice.
Project Team
- Dr Beth Russell, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- A/Prof Jennifer Philip, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- Prof Peter Hudson , Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- A/Prof Brian Le, Palliative Care Department, Royal Melbourne Hospital
- A/Prof Vijaya Sundararajan, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- A/Prof Caroline Brand, Melbourne Epicentre
- Ms Anna Collins, Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne
- Dr Sara Vogrin, University of Melbourne
Key Contact
Name: Beth Russell
Email: beth.russell@svha.org.au
Funding Source
Victorian Government, Department of Health and Human Services
Key Publications
Russell B, Hennesy-Anderson N, Collins A, Burchell J, Sundararajan V, Le B, Brand C, Hudson P, Philip J. Responding to urgency of need in palliative care: Initial stages in the development of a decision aid for palliative care triage. Palliative Medicine. 2016;30(6):NP42
Russell B, Hennesy-Anderson N, Collins A, Le B, Philip J. Responding to urgency of need in palliative care: Initial stage of development of a decision aid for Palliative Care triage. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2016;51(2):453-454
Russell B, Sundararajan V, Hennesy-Anderson N, Collins A, Burchell J, Vogrin S, Le B, Brand C, Hudson P, Philip P. Responding to urgency of need: Initial qualitative stage in the development of a triage tool for use in palliative care services. Palliative Medicine. 2018; 32(7):1246-1254