Developing Evidence-Based Clinical Guidelines in Palliative Care for Home Care Setting in India.
Clinical guidelines
home care
palliative care
Journal
Indian journal of palliative care
ISSN: 0973-1075
Titre abrégé: Indian J Palliat Care
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101261221
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Historique:
received:
06
09
2019
revised:
02
11
2019
accepted:
31
12
2019
entrez:
14
12
2020
pubmed:
15
12
2020
medline:
15
12
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Clinical guidelines can improve care and reduce variations in practice. With the growth of The Jimmy S Bilimoria Foundation's PALCARE, a home-based palliative care service launched in December 2015, the foundation felt a need for locally relevant, clinical guidelines to ensure consistency and reliabilty of its service. A Clinical Consultative Committee (CCC) comprising of experienced palliative care professionals, from within and outside India, was constituted to help with the development of robust, evidence-based multidisciplinary clinical guidelines relevant to the delivery of palliative care for adults in a home care setting in Mumbai, India, which could be applied to other similar settings in India and elsewhere. The CCC developed 39 guidelines under eight categories; using a structured process from the initial draft to its finalization. The CCC vetted each of the guidelines over monthly Skype meetings for validity, relevance, local applicability and reproducibility. Feedback from the PALCARE team was also incorporated. Thirty-nine clinical guidelines relevant to adult palliative care services in home care setting were developed. These have been discussed and found useful by the PALCARE team. The guidelines are available on the PALCARE website for use by wider professional audience. Development of clinical guidelines locally for palliative care in a home care setting in response to a felt need to ensure quality care and reduce variation in practice has been beneficial in clinical care. It has proved to be a good teaching resource too. Regular audits to measure practice against these guidelines will ensure better patient outcomes.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
BACKGROUND
Clinical guidelines can improve care and reduce variations in practice. With the growth of The Jimmy S Bilimoria Foundation's PALCARE, a home-based palliative care service launched in December 2015, the foundation felt a need for locally relevant, clinical guidelines to ensure consistency and reliabilty of its service. A Clinical Consultative Committee (CCC) comprising of experienced palliative care professionals, from within and outside India, was constituted to help with the development of robust, evidence-based multidisciplinary clinical guidelines relevant to the delivery of palliative care for adults in a home care setting in Mumbai, India, which could be applied to other similar settings in India and elsewhere.
METHODOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT
UNASSIGNED
The CCC developed 39 guidelines under eight categories; using a structured process from the initial draft to its finalization. The CCC vetted each of the guidelines over monthly Skype meetings for validity, relevance, local applicability and reproducibility. Feedback from the PALCARE team was also incorporated. Thirty-nine clinical guidelines relevant to adult palliative care services in home care setting were developed. These have been discussed and found useful by the PALCARE team. The guidelines are available on the PALCARE website for use by wider professional audience.
CONCLUSION
CONCLUSIONS
Development of clinical guidelines locally for palliative care in a home care setting in response to a felt need to ensure quality care and reduce variation in practice has been beneficial in clinical care. It has proved to be a good teaching resource too. Regular audits to measure practice against these guidelines will ensure better patient outcomes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33311873
doi: 10.4103/IJPC.IJPC_161_19
pii: IJPC-26-319
pmc: PMC7725183
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
319-322Informations de copyright
Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Palliative Care.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There are no conflicts of interest.
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