Surveys to Assess Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care

Factors Affecting Family Satisfaction with Inpatient End-of-Life Care

BACKGROUND Little data exists addressing satisfaction with end-of-life care among hospitalized patients, as they and their family members are systematically excluded from routine satisfaction surveys. It is imperative that we closely examine patient and institution factors associated with quality end-of-life care and determine high-priority target areas for quality improvement. METHODS Betwee...

Discussing prognosis with patients and their families near the end of life: impact on satisfaction with end-of-life care

BACKGROUND Seriously ill patients and their physicians often avoid discussing prognosis, which may compromise optimal end-of-life (EOL) care planning. The relation between prognosis discussion and patient and family satisfaction with EOL care is unknown. METHODS Using a 5-domain questionnaire, we surveyed inpatients with cancer or end-stage medical disease and their families on their satisfac...

Effect of an integrated cancer support team on caregiver satisfaction with end-of-life care.

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary cancer support team (CST) on caregiver satisfaction with end-of-life (EOL) care for family members with advanced cancer. DESIGN Quasi-experimental pre- and post-test tandem design. SETTING Outpatient clinics of a comprehensive cancer center in urban Cleveland, OH. SAMPLE 106 family caregivers. METHODS Participants were...

End-of-life care

End-of-life care

A concern with issues associated with the care of people at the end of their life has run throughout the first 7 years of Mortality, with at least one paper on this topic in each volume. The early papers were informed by an interest in palliative care, drawing upon the concerns of the hospice and palliative care movement about how best to provide ‘holistic care’ that addresses social, psycholog...