Palliative Care Champions - Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Name:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Medical ICU Project: Palliative Care Champions

Description:
Description of roles and responsibilities of the Palliative Care Champion for distribution in the intensive care unit.

Category:
Organizational Tools - Programmatic Material

Source:
Massachusetts General Hospital
Palliative Care Services
55 Fruit Street
Boston MA 02114
www.massgeneral.org

Contact:
J. Andrew Billings, M.D.
jbillings@partners.org

How the grantee used this instrument:
An internal use application document describing a new role for the staff of the MICU and its relationship to the Merging Palliative Care and Critical Care Cultures Quality Improvement and Demonstration Project.

Keywords:
program description, intervention phase, champion, staffing, services, intervention planning

To use this tool:
You may print and copy this tool for our own use from this site. Please credit the source.

References:
Developed specifically for this project by the project team.

To view this tool:

Palliative Care Champions - 1 page PDF
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Posted: July 2006

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