dementia, dementie
Conditions
Interventions
The generic strategy links cumulative family evaluations with EOLD-scores of a group of patients to specific targets to improve care quality. In the patient specific strategy, individual patient EOLD-
Sponsors
VU University Medical Center, EMGO Institute
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Family caregivers of nursing home patients who died with dementia on a psycho-geriatric ward (mostly dementia) of a nursing home.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Families of patients having stayed less than 16 days in the nursing home in the last month of life, and cases in which no family caregivers is available.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| EOLD-scores assessing quality of end-of-life care and quality of dying in dementia. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Improved understanding of the process of implementation of audit-and feedback in the nursing home setting. | — |
Contacts
Public ContactJ.T. Steen, van der
VU University Medical Center EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research Department of general practice & elderly care medicine Van der Boechorststraat 7
Outcome results
None listed