Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire for Nurses - Version 3.2A - University of Washington Schools of Medicine and Nursing

Name:
University of Washington/Harborview Medical Center - Integrating Palliative and Critical Care Program: Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire for Nurses - Version 3.2A

Description:
An extensive questionnaire for nurses about experiences their patient may have had during the time they were receiving palliative care in Intensive Care Unit.

Category:
Evaluation Tools - Satisfaction/Perception of Care

Source:
University of Washington
Harborview Medical Center
325 9th Ave., Box 359762
Seattle WA 98104
206.731.3356

Contact:
J. Randall Curtis, M.D., M.P.H.
ptreece@uwashington.edu

How the grantee used this instrument:
This questionnaire is for nurses who were present during the last few days of a patient's life. Responses were used by the grantee to evaluate the palliative care program in the Intensive Care Unit.

Keywords:
death, dying, caregiver experience, after-death interview, post death interview, quality improvement, provider assessment, provider satisfaction, patient experience, satisfaction survey

To use this tool:
Please credit the source in any publications using this tool. For further information on scoring and analyses and for published references, please see the "Instruments" and "Publications" pages at http://depts.washington.edu/eolcare .

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

To view this tool:

Quality of Dying and Death Questionnaire for Nurses - Version 3.2A
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Posted: July 2006

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was 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.