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Pcoc National Report On Outcomes In Palliative Care In Australia July To December 2011, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC) was established in mid-2005 and is funded under the National Palliative Care Program supported by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The goal of the PCOC is to use standardised, validated, clinical assessment tools to benchmark and measure outcomes in palliative care; and assist palliative care services to improve the quality of care. Further information on the tools can be found at www.pcoc.org.au. Each service involved in PCOC submits data every six months. The data are then collated and fed back to services to inform service improvement. Participation in PCOC is voluntary. …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - South Australia, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

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 twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 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 three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes Of Practice Program: Compendium Of Data Requirements And Evaluation Tools, Cristina J. Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Darcy Morris, Robert Gordon, Kathryn E. Williams, Patrea R. Andersen, Milena Snoek, Simon Eckermann, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

The evaluation of the Expanded Scopes of Practice (ESOP) Program is structured to include data collection at the local; sub-project and national leve l. Local projects are responsible for conducting their own project evaluation within the overarching framework of the national evaluation. This means that projects will collect a range of data to support evaluation activities. In some cases this data will be analysed locally and for other evaluation activiti es it will be analysed by the NET. The National Evaluation Team will not finalise the sub-project data analyses until the first quarter of 2014.

Pcoc National Report On Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care In Australia January - June 2012, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

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 …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - Western Australia, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

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 …

Patient Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 13 (January - June 2012) - South Australia, Sonia Bird, Samuel F. Allingham, Malcolm R. Masso, Maree Banfield

Australian Health Services Research Institute

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 …

Outcomes In Palliative Care, Report 12 (July - December 2011) - Western Australia, Samuel F. Allingham, Sonia Bird

Australian Health Services Research Institute

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 twelfth PCOC report, data submitted for the July - December 2011 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 three sections:

Section 1 summarises each of the four major benchmark measures and subsets and presents national benchmarking results for these benchmarks

Section 2 presents additional analysis for each of the sixteen benchmarks

Section 3 …

Evaluation Of The Alzheimer's Australia National Dementia Care Initiative: Fourth Progress Report, Anita B. Westera, Cristina J. Thompson

Australian Health Services Research Institute

This fourth progress report charts the developments in Alzheimer's Australia National Quality Dementia Care Initiative (NQDCI) since the submission of the previous progress report and the 'Report of the Interim Evaluation of the Consumer Dementia Research Network'. It covers the period from May 2011 through to the end of June 2012. The focus of activity has been on: - The completion of contracts, commencement of governance arrangements and project activities for the three projects funded under Round 1 of the National Quality Dementia Care Network (NQDCN); - The refinement of project proposals relating to Round 2 of the NQDCN, their …

Health Workforce Australia Expanded Scopes Of Practice Program: Evaluation Framework, Cristina Thompson, Karen Quinsey, Robert Gordon, Kathryn Williams, Simon Eckermann, Patrea Andersen, Milena Snoek, Kathy Eagar

Australian Health Services Research Institute

In June 2012, the Centre for Health Service Development (CHSD), University of Wollongong, was appointed by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) as the national evaluator of the Expanded Scopes of Practice (ESOP) Program. This report provides the current iteration of the evaluation framework for HWA Australia's ESOP Program. HWA through this Program has initiated a range of projects that support implementation of the National Health Workforce Innovation and Reform Strategic Framework for Action 2011-2015. The ESOP Program (also referred to as the 'Program'), has been developed as part of the corresponding HWA work plan. This evaluation framework aims to ensure a …