About the Project
Establishing Person and Family-Centered Palliative Care Outcome Measures for BC is an initiative led by the BC Centre for Palliative Care in collaboration with an advisory committee of regional and provincial health authorities and agencies. This initiative aimed to identify evidence-informed outcomes that reflect what matters most to people living with life-limiting illnesses and their families.
Project Team
Eman Hassan, Project Sponsor & Project Director
Della Roberts, Project Manager
Carolyn Tayler, Project Advisor
Rick Sawatzky, Expert Advisor
Grace Hu, Research Coordinator
BC Centre for Palliative Care convened an advisory panel from BC health system, hospice sector, and other key community organizations, along with people with lived experience to develop recommendations for measuring palliative care outcomes in BC. This is in response to Health Canada’s Framework on Palliative Care in Canada (2018), which identified developing and standardizing person- and family-reported outcomes and experience measures as one of its four priorities for action. The recommended outcomes and measurement tools will help guide future efforts to assess and improve palliative care outcomes in BC.
Project Report
BCCPC has started by creating a reference toolkit that includes tools and steps to begin measuring the 9 essential quality outcomes outlined in the report.
These Essential Outcomes are an important step toward standardized, reportable palliative care outcomes for people and their families in BC.
Next Steps
Our work in this field will continue, and we are now exploring opportunities to move forward standardized reporting of palliative care outcomes in BC across settings including Long Term Care homes.
Have Questions?
If you have questions about this project, please contact Della Roberts at droberts@bc-cpc.ca.
