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Acceptability Of The Md Anderson Symptom Inventory And Qualitative Analysis Of Barriers To Palliative Care Services For Rural And Non-Rural Populations, Daniel M. W. Johnson

Doctoral Projects

The United States health system strives to improve the care patients receive while reducing healthcare expenditures. A significant portion of the nation’s healthcare expenditure is spent on end of life care. Palliative care provides one solution to reducing healthcare expenditures while improving the patient experience. Reducing symptom intensity is one example of palliative care’s success. A midwest palliative care program was tasked to gather quality data on the service’s ability to manage patient symptoms.

The program selected the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory to improve symptom assessment and provide quality metrics for the organization. Additionally, research suggests rural populations have poorer …

Toolkit Development For A Community-Based Palliative Care Program, Tanya A. Rowerdink

Doctoral Projects

The quality of care in the U.S. at the end of life is poor, yet comes with a high price. Since the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) report Approaching Death in 1997, inpatient palliative care programs in hospitals with 50 beds or more have grown by 165%. In 2015, the IOM had a follow up report, Dying in America that indicates the need for community-based palliative care programs to increase access of care for individuals who are homebound or live in rural communities. In January 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated the Medicare Care Choices Model (MCCM) …