Open AccessMeasuring Processes of Care in Palliative Surgery
Author(s) -
Elizabeth J. Lilley,
Charlotta Lindvall,
Keith D. Lillemoe,
James A. Tulsky,
Daniel C. Wiener,
Zara Cooper
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/sla.0000000000002579
Subject(s) - medicine , palliative care , palliative surgery , quality of life (healthcare) , intensive care medicine , population , medline , surgery , general surgery , nursing , environmental health , political science , law
: Palliative surgical procedures are often performed for patients with limited survival. Quality measures for processes of care at the end of life are appropriate in palliative surgery, but have not been applied in this patient population. In this paper, the authors propose 4 quality measures for end-of-life care in a palliative surgery, and then demonstrate the utility of natural language processing for implementing these measures.