Quality of primary palliative care for older people with mild and severe dementia: an international mortality follow-back study using quality indicators.

ABSTRACT:

Background

measuring the quality of primary palliative care for older people with dementia in different countries is important to identify areas where improvements can be made.

Objective

using quality indicators (QIs), we systematically investigated the overall quality of primary palliative care for older people with dementia in three different countries.

Design/setting

a mortality follow-back survey through nation- and region-wide representative Sentinel Networks of General Practitioners (GPs) in Belgium, Italy and Spain. GPs registered all patient deaths in their practice. We applied a set of nine QIs developed through literature review and expert consensus.

Subjects

patients aged 65 or older, who died non-suddenly with mild or severe dementia as judged by GP

SUBMITTER: Miranda R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6201823 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature