Assessment of How They Were Feeling (Patients)

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Palliative Care
Country
Belgium
Publishing Organisation
Quality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)
Type of Quality Indicator
Process
IOM Quality Dimension
Person-Centredness
Domain
Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Care

Defining Attributes

Definition

Have your professional carers checked how you are feeling? Yes, regularly. Yes, once. No.

Numerator

Number of patients who indicated that the caregivers regularly assessed how they were feeling.

Denominator

Total number of patients for whom this indicator was measured.

Exclusions

None

Use of Risk Adjustment
Yes
Risk Adjustments

Age, sex, main illness, shortness of breath, co-morbidities, length of stay, type of service patients was referred to were examined as potential. Statistically significant ones were included for each QI in this set. Therefore specific measures vary.

Stratifications

None

Data Attributes

Type of Data Collection
Surveys
Data Collection Methods

Questionnaires.

Frequency of Data Collection
6 monthly
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
182
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Ad libitum
Reporting Frequency in Days
1
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No

Source and Reference Attributes

Link to Measurement Tools
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
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
Yes
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
12 March 2025