Name:
Supportive Care of the Dying: Community Yardstick
Description:
The "yardstick" helps determine how one community compares to national
data and to determine possible actions to improve care for those within that
community.
Category:
Evaluation Tools - Community Assessment
Source:
Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care
c/o Providence Health System
4805 NE Glisan Street,2E07
Portland, Oregon 97213
tel: (503) 215-5053
fax: (503) 215-5054
www.careofdying.org
Contact:
Sylvia McSkimming
e-mail: Sylvia.McSkimming@providence.org
How the grantee used this instrument:
Used to gather data from a community in order to establish an infrastructure
that promotes excellent community and end-of-life care
Keywords:
community survey
To use this tool:
You may print and copy this tool for your own use from this site. Please credit
source.
References:
Developed specifically for this project by the project team.
To view this tool:
Left click on the download link to view the PDF document in your Web browser.
Right-click on the download link to save the document to your computer.
PDF 85 KB / 6 pages (Viewing PDF files requires downloading
and installation of the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader.)
Posted October 2004
# SCD16, type:community_assessment
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families. Visit PromotingExcellence.org for more resources.
