Measurement Best Practices
Measurement tells the story of your palliative care service: what it does, whom it serves, and its impact on outcomes important to patients, families, leaders, decision makers, funders/payers, and community partners.
This toolkit provides guidance on measurement so that your program can:
- Demonstrate value
- Align your services with national palliative care quality standards
- Manage your program operations
- Perform continuous quality improvement
What’s in the Toolkit
How and What to Measure
Recommendations for program measures that are feasible to collect and that produce data that the program can use to achieve its goals.
Clinicians who participate in the Merit-based Incentive System must submit data annually on six quality measures. This list highlights the most relevant ones for palliative care clinicians.
In this webinar, speakers Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA, and Santiago Lopez, MD, introduce measurement strategies using data to build strong palliative care programs.
Recommendations for measures and approaches to evaluating palliative care services that enable growth and improvement.
PCQC is a membership organization that operates a national unified palliative care registry, which captures both program and patient-level data. Membership allows palliative care teams to track their performance over time, benchmark against their peers, and participate in quality improvement offerings.
This Virtual Office Hour explores best practices in evaluating your program and engaging collaborators.
Using Data
Synthesize data to manage the program efficiently, perform continuous quality improvement, and demonstrate value.
Using data from the National Palliative Care Registry™, CAPC’s Research Department will present key findings on the landscape of hospital-based palliative care in the U.S.
Webinar presentation on how to leverage measurement for quality improvement and to demonstrate value.
Free, interactive tool to help you estimate savings attributable to your hospital palliative care team.
Downloadable spreadsheet with embedded calculations that allow the user to input their actual salary costs and billing mix to calculate the financial impact specific to each program. Includes comparisons to key national averages.
This on-demand webinar will provide an overview of measures palliative care programs should monitor and use to guide planning and growth.
In this on-demand webinar, speakers Lynn Hill Spragens, MBA, and Santiago Lopez, MD, introduce practical steps to improve team work flow and achieve appropriate billing results, demonstrating stewardship, and strengthening prospects for growth.
A streamlined calculator for modeling return on investment based on home-based palliative care program assumptions.
Exploring the history and mechanics of relative value units (RVUs) to demystify and support constructive use.
Tools to make the case for palliative care resources and financial partnerships, including the palliative care evidence base and downloadable tools for presenting the case.
Faculty
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Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Founder, Director Emerita and Strategic Medical Advisor, Center to Advance Palliative Care
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Maggie Rogers, MPH
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J. Brian Cassel, PhD
Palliative Care Research Director; Associate Professor, VCU School of Medicine
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Brynn Bowman, MPA
Chief Executive Officer, Center to Advance Palliative Care
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Allison Silvers, MBA
Chief Health Care Transformation Officer
