Quality Improvement Condensed (QUIC): Identify Patients with Palliative Care Needs and Develop a Practice Palliative Care Register

Identify patients with palliative care needs and develop a practice palliative care register toolkit

The Quality Improvement Condensed (QUIC) Toolkit is an essential resource for those working in family health practices, designed to help you identify patients who could benefit from a palliative care approach and develop a palliative care register (list) for your practice.

Goal of the toolkit

This toolkit supports those working in family health practices who would like to make improvements in the earlier identifications of patients who could benefits from a palliative care approach.

This toolkit is designed to be used in clinical care settings.
The steps outlined in this QUIC will help guide you through all phases of your quality improvement project.
The toolkit is a condensed step-by-step approach to undertaking quality improvement (QI) in your practice as it relates to palliative care. It draws on, and provides links to excellent existing resources.
Helpful resources are included such as evidence-based screening tools and resources to help you succeed in employing quality improvement and project management methodologies.

What is a QUIC?

This Quality Improvement Condensed (QUIC) toolkit is part of a broader collection of QUIC toolkits that help you make small and scalable changes in your practice.

These QUICs are free to use and are designed to go hand in hand with one another.
These toolkits use the Model for Improvement (MFI) of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). It consists of three key questions and Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. You may use other approaches that you are more acquainted with or feel would be more appropriate.
These toolkits provide a step-by-step approach to undertaking palliative care related quality improvement (QI) initiatives in your practice.

Toolkit development

This QUIC was developed by Pallium Canada and a core group of subject matter experts. They collaborated, receiving input and feedback, from a pan-Canadian community of practice, the Quality Improvement Collaborative: Identify Patients with Palliative Care Needs series, made up of members from across Canada and professions – all with a shared passion for integrating a palliative approach to care.

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