Tools

Palliative Care Measure Menu
This tool enables palliative care leaders, quality professionals, and administrators to quickly and efficiently select a feasible, balanced portfolio of quality measures that mirror the scope and focus of a given PC program. (California Health Care Foundation)
Community-Based Palliative Care Opportunity Analysis: Overview and Tables for Baseline Utilization and Month-to-Month Utilization
Description and tools to support use of the CBPC Opportunity Analysis, which provider organizations can use to assess the need for and expected impacts of CBPC services. (California Health Care Foundation and Coalition for Compassionate Care of California)
Supportive Care Calculators – Clinic and Home-Based Services
Tools to help clinical and administrative leaders make data-driven decisions about the costs and expected benefits of creating or expanding palliative care clinics or home-based services. (California Health Care Foundation and Coalition for Compassionate Care of California)
Assessing Adherence to the National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (DOC)
Self-assessment tool to help identify structures and processes that could be included in a proposed CBPC service, or to assess an existing service’s adherence to the NCP guidelines. (California Health Care Foundation and Coalition for Compassionate Care of California)