Name:
University of New Mexico: Health Care Professionals End-of-Life Care Survey
Description:
This tool provides a set of questions for focus groups of health care professionals
to identify local strengths and barriers to improving care in the community
at end-of-life.
Category:
Evaluation Tool - Community Assessment
Source:
University of New Mexico
Health Science Complex
Palliative Care Office
MSC 11 6020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
Phone: (505) 272-4868
Fax: (505) 272-8572
www.unm.edu
Contact:
Walter Forman MD
wbforman@unm.edu
How the grantee used this instrument:
A one and a half-hour focus group with health care professionals in the community,
drawn from outside the working group of health professionals who work regularly
with the hospice. Physicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, physical
or occupational therapists, nutritionists, etc. were included.
Keywords:
community survey, needs assessment, physician survey
To use this tool:
You may print and copy this tool for your own use from this site. Please credit
source.
References:
Designed by the project staff for this project.
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.
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Posted August 2004
University of New Mexico overview page
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care is 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.
