Percentage of Patients Who, After Treatment, Experienced Significant Improvement in Pain

Identifying Attributes

Care Settings
Palliative Care
Country
Belgium
Publishing Organisation
Quality Indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC)
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Effectiveness
Domain
Physical Aspects of Care

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
No
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
No

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).

Technical Specifications
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
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
Yes
Upload Date
02 December 2025