Specialised Palliative Care Team Consulted
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Dementia Care
Country
Sweden
Publishing Organisation
Swedish Register of Palliative Care (SRPC)
Type of Quality Indicator
Process
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Palliative Care
Defining Attributes
Definition
Specialised palliative care team consulted
Numerator
Number of patients where specialised palliative care team was consulted
Denominator
Number of patients who died
Exclusions
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
In this paper: age, gender and place of death (hospital or nursing home) For registry: counties/regions and/or municipalities separated on different types of care units
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Surveys
Data Collection Methods
Data collected via paper form or at the website
Frequency of Data Collection
Continuous
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
1
Reporting Methods
Annual Report and online real-time reports utdata.palliativregistret.org/ (but not dementia specific)
Reporting Frequency
Realtime and annually
Reporting Frequency in Days
1-365
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Martinsson, L., Lundstrom, S., & Sundelof, J. (2020). Better quality of end-of-life care for persons with advanced dementia in nursing homes compared to hospitals: A Swedish national register study. BMC Palliative Care, 19(1), 135.
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Swedish Register of Palliative Care Survey
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
No
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
02 December 2025
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