Operationalizing Depression Screening in Ambulatory Palliative Care : A Quality Improvement Project

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BACKGROUND: Depression is common in the palliative care setting and impacts outcomes. Operationalized screening is unusual in palliative care.

LOCAL PROBLEM: Lack of operationalized depression screening at two ambulatory palliative care sites.

METHODS: A fellow-driven quality improvement initiative to implement operationalized depression screening using the patient health questionnaire-2 (PHQ-2). The primary measure was rate of EMR-documented depression screening. Secondary measures were clinician perspectives on the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the PHQ-2.

INTERVENTION: The intervention is a clinic-wide implementation of PHQ-2 screening supported by note templates, brief clinician training, referral resources for clinicians, and opportunities for indirect psychiatric consultation.

RESULTS: Operationalized depression screening rates increased from 2% to 38%. All clinicians felt incorporation of depression screening was useful and feasible.

CONCLUSIONS: Operationalized depression screening is feasible in ambulatory palliative care workflow, though optimization through having screening be completed prior to clinician visit might improve uptake.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:65

Enthalten in:

Journal of pain and symptom management - 65(2023), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite e7-e13

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shalev, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Patterson, Melissa [VerfasserIn]
Aytaman, Yasemin [VerfasserIn]
Moya-Tapia, Manuel A [VerfasserIn]
Blinderman, Craig D [VerfasserIn]
Silva, Milagros D [VerfasserIn]
Reid, M Carrington [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Depression
Journal Article
Palliative care
Psychiatry
Psychooncology
Screening

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Date Completed 27.12.2022

Date Revised 02.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.09.002

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM346207436