IDentification of patients in need of general and specialised PALLiative care (ID-PALL©): item generation, content and face validity of a new interprofessional screening instrument.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Early identification of patients requiring palliative care is a major public health concern. A growing number of instruments exist to help professionals to identify these patients, however, thus far, none have been thoroughly assessed for criterion validity. In addition, no currently available instruments differentiate between patients in need of general vs. specialised palliative care, and most are primarily intended for use by physicians. This study aims to develop and rigorously validate a new interprofessional instrument allowing identification of patients in need of general vs specialised palliative care. METHODS:The instrument development involved four steps: i) literature review to determine the concept to measure; ii) generation of a set of items; iii) review of the init

SUBMITTER: Teike Luthi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7017473 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature