The Australian Best Care of the Dying Project (ABCD)

1. What are the important gaps between evidence and clinical practice identified in the networks area of interest? .......................................................... 2 2. What is the gap between evidence and practice that the network would propose to address first?..................................................................................... 2 a) What is the best available evidence in this area? ........................................ 3 b) What evidence is there to demonstrate a gap between evidence and practice both in general and within your network ............................................. 6 c) Why is this gap a priority?............................................................................ 8 d) How will closing this gap improve patient outcomes?.................................. 9 e) What challenges are anticipated in addressing this gap?............................ 9 3. How did we go about identifying these evidence-practice gaps? .................. 10 Methods......................................................................................................... 10 Results........................................................................................................... 11 Discussion ..................................................................................................... 11 Summary ....................................................................................................... 13 4. How does the network propose to fill the evidence-practice gaps? ............... 14 5. How do we propose to continue to review the evidence-base gaps? ............ 14 References ........................................................................................................... 16