Center to Advance Palliative Care Toolkit: Patient Identification and Assessment
The Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) has released a Patient Identification and Assessment toolkit for inpatient providers, community-based providers, systems, plans, and accountable care organizations.
Patients and families living with serious illness have a range of needs beyond disease treatment, including support for functional limitation, pain and other symptoms, and caregiver burden. The toolkit can be used to establish criteria for finding the right patients at the right time and assessing their physical, functional, emotional, social, and spiritual needs. It includes:
- Resources specific to inpatient providers; community-based providers; and systems, plans, and accountable care organizations
- Evidence-based resources for assessing pain, symptom burden, psychological and social needs, caregiver burden, and spiritual distress
- Information to help patients and families understand palliative care and request a consult when needed
To access the toolkit, click here.
To go to CAPC's COVID-19 Rapid Response Resources Hub, click here.
To learn more about JAHF's support, click here.
