Percentage of Patients Who, After Treatment, Experienced Significant Improvement in Pain
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
Percentage of patients who, after treatment, experienced significant improvement in pain
Numerator
Number of patients who, after treatment, experienced significant improvement in pain
Denominator
Total number of patients treated for pain
Exclusions
None
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
None
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
Source and Reference Attributes
Evidence Source
Leemans, K. et al. Quality indicators for palliative care services: Mixed-method study testing for face validity, feasibility, discriminative power and usefulness. Palliat. Med. 29, 71–82 (2015); Leemans, K. et al. Systematic quality monitoring for specialized palliative care services: development of a minimal set of quality indicators for palliative care study (qpac). Am. J. Hosp. Palliat. Med. 34, 532–546 (2017); Cohen, J. et al. Nationwide evaluation of palliative care (Q-PAC study) provided by specialized palliative care teams using quality indicators : Large variations in quality of care. Palliat. Med. 35, 1525–1541 (2021).