Palliative Care Planner: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Acceptability and Usability of an Electronic Health Records System-integrated, Needs-targeted App Platform.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The quality and patient-centeredness of intensive care unit (ICU)-based palliative care delivery is highly variable.

Objective

To develop and pilot an app platform for clinicians and ICU patients and their family members that enhances the delivery of needs-targeted palliative care.

Methods

In the development phase of the study, we developed an electronic health record (EHR) system-integrated mobile web app system prototype, PCplanner (Palliative Care Planner). PCplanner screens the EHR for ICU patients meeting any of five prompts (triggers) for palliative care consultation, allows families to report their unmet palliative care needs, and alerts clinicians to these needs. The evaluation phase included a prospective before/after study conducted at a large acad

SUBMITTER: Cox CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5812235 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature