Delay in commencement of palliative care service episodes provided to Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients: cross-sectional analysis of an Australian multi-jurisdictional dataset.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rapid effective responsiveness to patient needs is pivotal to high quality palliative care. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) people are susceptible to life-limiting illnesses at younger ages than other Australians and experience inequity of health service provision. The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration collects Australia-wide health service data on patient care, and has established performance benchmarks for specialist palliative care services. We investigated whether the benchmark for timely commencement of palliative care episodes (occurrence of delay >1 day after being designated 'ready for care' in <10% instances) is being met for Indigenous Australians in participating services. Additionally, we investigated the association between identifica

SUBMITTER: Woods JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6303928 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature