{"id":787,"date":"2011-08-07T23:07:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T06:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/pubs\/?page_id=787"},"modified":"2021-08-09T13:48:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:48:33","slug":"qeolc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/past-research\/qeolc\/","title":{"rendered":"Physician Study (QEOLC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Improving Physician Skill at Providing End-of-Life Care<\/strong><br \/>\nPrincipal Investigator:\u00a0 JR Curtis<br \/>\nResearch Grant:\u00a0 Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), May 2002 to October 2005<\/p>\n<p>The long term objective of this project has been to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided by physicians.\u00a0 The specific aims were:\u00a0 1) to establish the measurement characteristics of a questionnaire developed and pilot-tested by this research team to assess physician performance at specific end-of-life care skills; 2) to assess the quality of end-of-life care provided by physicians who commonly care for dying patients, including oncologists, pulmonologists, cardiologists, and nursing home physicians; and, 3) to explore mechanisms for implementing interventions for improving physician care for patients at the end of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Publications from this study include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reinke LF, Shannon SE, Engelberg R, Dotolo D, Silvestri GA, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Nurses&#8217; identification of important yet under-utilized end-of-life care skills for patients with life-limiting or terminal illnesses.\u00a0 <em>J Palliat Med<\/em>. 2010 Jun;13(6):753-9.<\/p>\n<p>Engelberg RA, Downey L, Wenrich MD, Carline JD, Silvestri GA, Dotolo D, Nielsen EL, Curtis JR.\u00a0 Measuring the quality of end-of-life care.\u00a0 <em>J Pain Symptom Manage<\/em>. 2010 Jun;39(6):951-71.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Improving Physician Skill at Providing End-of-Life Care Principal Investigator:\u00a0 JR Curtis Research Grant:\u00a0 Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ), May 2002 to October 2005 The long term objective of this project has been to improve the quality of end-of-life care provided by physicians.\u00a0 The specific aims were:\u00a0 1) to establish the measurement characteristics of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":33,"menu_order":11,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1646,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/787\/revisions\/1646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/eolcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}