Does the Home Palliative Care Unit (HPCU) provide an "interview" with caregivers before the taking charge of the patient at home? If yes, does it follow a standardised procedure?

Does the Home Palliative Care Unit (HPCU) provide an "interview" with caregivers before the taking charge of the patient at home? If yes, does it follow a standardised procedure? Response options include: No; Yes, without a standardised procedure; Yes, with a standardised procedure

Palliative care delivered in acute settings (hospital inpatients) and long-term settings (nursing homes, residential facilities, hospices).

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Participation among Home Palliative Care Units is voluntary by registering the unit in the web portal. The web portal is used to collect information based on 3 forms: an identity record to register relevant information of Home Palliative Care Units; a detailed questionnaire describing clinical, structure, and processes data (i.e., settings and services provided, staff, continuity of care, and outcomes assessment); all relevant activity data (i.e., patients, admissions, diagnosis, nurses/physician visits, and place of death).

Scaccabarozzi G, Lovaglio PG, Limonta F, Floriani M, Pellegrini G. Quality assessment of palliative home care in Italy. J Eval Clin Pract. 2017;00:1‐9. doi: 10.1111/jep.12704. Available here: fondazionefloriani.eu/wp-content/uploads/docs/PDF/Osservatorio.pdf Scaccabarozzi G, Lovaglio PG, Limonta F, Peruselli C, Bellentani M, Crippa M. Monitoring the Italian Home Palliative Care Services. Healthcare (Basel). 2019 Jan 2;7(1):4. doi: 10.3390/healthcare7010004.

Some limited details were extracted from: Scaccabarozzi G, Lovaglio PG, Limonta F, Floriani M, Pellegrini G. Quality assessment of palliative home care in Italy. J Eval Clin Pract. 2017;00:1‐9. doi: 10.1111/jep.12704. Available here: fondazionefloriani.eu/wp-content/uploads/docs/PDF/Osservatorio.pdf