Organization and evaluation of generalist palliative care in a Danish hospital

BMC Palliative Care

Table 2 Departments participating in the PAVI-survey and in the hospital’s internal evaluation of Standard 2.19.1

PAVI-survey*			Hospital’s self evaluation**
			Departments’ self-evaluation						Audit
			Sections involved	[Departments involved]	Standard 2.19.1 was:				Sections involved	Comments
Type of department	Responders	Providers of palliative care			Fully met	Partially met	Not met	Not relevant	Sections involved	Comments
N	29	22	56	[23]	41 [18]	11 [7]	1 [1]	3 [3]	17 [13]	10 [9]
Medical	8	8	16	[6]	9 [3]	6 [4]	1	0	6 [4]	3 [2]
Surgical	7	5	19	[7]	15 [6]	4 [2]	0	0	5 [3]	3 [3]
Paediatric	2	1	6	[2]	5 [2]	0	0	1	0	0
Oncology/haematology	2	2	2	[2]	2 [2]	0	0	0	2 [2]	2 [2]
Anaesthesiology	3	3	8	[3]	7 [3]	1	0	0	1	1
Gynecology/obstetrics	2	2	4	[2]	3 [2]	0	0	1	2	1
Miscellaneous	5	1	1	[1]	0	0	0	1	1	0

*A national survey concerning the organisation and structure of palliative care in Danish clinical hospital departments (N = 410). Here, the responses from the case hospital’s 29 participating departments are shown.** The self evaluation concerned 56 sections’ fulfilment of Standard 2.19.1: ‘Treatment of the incurably ill patient and care for the patient’s relatives’, Version 1, at the level of Indicator 1: The institution has guidelines for palliative care, and Indicator 2: Leaders and members of the staff are familiar with the guidelines and use them.# Of the 29 PAVI-survey responders, 6 departments did not join the selfevaluation: 2 medical departments, 1 audiology, 1 eye, 2 emergency room.
¤Miscellaneous consists of departments: Eye department, dermatology, audiology and 2 ER’s (emergency room).
§All numbers written in parenthesis refers to the number of departments (in all 23 departments encompassing the 56 sections involved in the self-evaluation).

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