Assessing Care Integration for Dual-Eligible Beneficiaries: A Review of Quality Measures Chosen by States in the Financial Alignment Initiative

10.15868/socialsector.24995 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Sabiha Zainulbhai Zainulbhai ◽

Lee Goldberg Goldberg ◽

Weiwen Ng Ng ◽

Anne H. Montgomery Montgomery

Keyword(s):

Quality Measures ◽

Care Integration ◽

Dual Eligible

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Standards, Guidelines, and Quality Measures for Successful Specialty Palliative Care Integration Into Oncology: Current Approaches and Future Directions

Journal of Clinical Oncology ◽

10.1200/jco.18.02440 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 38 (9) ◽

pp. 987-994 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Arif H. Kamal ◽

Claudia Bausewein ◽

David J. Casarett ◽

David C. Currow ◽

Deborah J. Dudgeon ◽

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Keyword(s):

Palliative Care ◽

Best Practice ◽

Quality Measurement ◽

Quality Measures ◽

Shared Vision ◽

Care Services ◽

Care Integration ◽

Measurement Framework ◽

Palliative Care Services ◽

Oncology Care

Although robust evidence demonstrates that specialty palliative care integrated into oncology care improves patient and health system outcomes, few clinicians are familiar with the standards, guidelines, and quality measures related to integration. These types of guidance outline principles of best practice and provide a framework for assessing the fidelity of their implementation. Significant advances in the understanding of effective methods and procedures to guide integration of specialty palliative care into oncology have led to a proliferation of guidance documents around the world, with several areas of commonality but also some key differences. Commonalities originate from a shared vision for integration; differences arise from diverse roles of palliative care specialists within cancer care globally. In this review we discuss three of the most cited standards/guidelines, as well as quality measures related to integrated palliative and oncology care. We also recommend changes to the quality measurement framework for palliative care and a new way to match palliative care services to patients with advanced cancer on the basis of care complexity and patient needs, irrespective of prognosis.

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The Elicited Language Analysis Procedure

Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools ◽

10.1044/0161-1461.1301.37 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 37-41

Author(s):

Larry J. Mattes

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Tool ◽

Descriptive Analysis ◽

Quality Measures ◽

Analysis Procedure ◽

Elicited Imitation ◽

Response Quality ◽

Semantic Relationships ◽

Language Analysis

Elicited imitation tasks are frequently used as a diagnostic tool in evaluating children with communication handicaps. This article presents a scoring procedure that can be used to obtain an in-depth descriptive analysis of responses produced on elicited imitation tasks. The Elicited Language Analysis Procedure makes it possible to systematically evaluate responses in terms of both their syntactic and semantic relationships to the stimulus sentences presented by the examiner. Response quality measures are also included in the analysis procedure.

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