Journal article
Triaging the Terminally Ill—Development of the Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care (RUN-PC) Triage Tool
B Russell, S Vogrin, J Philip, N Hennessy-Anderson, A Collins, J Burchell, B Le, C Brand, P Hudson, V Sundararajan
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC | Published : 2020
Abstract
Context: Evidence-based resource allocation is receiving increasing attention as we strive for equity, transparency, and cost-effectiveness across health care. In the context of finite resources, which of our patients with terminal illness should be prioritized for urgent palliative care? Objectives: To develop the scoring system for the novel Responding to Urgency of Need in Palliative Care triage tool. Methods: Online international discrete choice experiment involving palliative care clinicians to establish the relative importance of seven key attributes of palliative care triage identified during an earlier qualitative study. Results: Participants (n = 772) were mainly female (79.9%) with..
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Awarded by Department of Health, State Government of Victoria
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Department of Health, Victoria, the Bethlehem Griffiths Research Foundation [grant number BGRF1710-1], the St Vincent's Hospital Research Endowment Fund [grant number 81891] and the Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarships. None of these funders had a role in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or in the decision to submit the article for publication.