Table of contents
- Preliminary material
- Title and verso pages
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Executive summary
- Purpose
- Main findings
- Recommendations
- Sections
- Introduction
- Background
- The Palliative Care Information Development project
- Data collection systems
- Current systems
- Future directions
- Current data reporting
- Reporting in each state and territory
- Mapping of data items
- Other possible sources of palliative care data
- Consultation with service providers
- Approach
- Background/discussion paper
- Outcomes of the consultation
- Providers' suggestions on quality of care indicators
- Lessons from the consultation feedback
- Feasibility and performance monitoring
- Purpose
- Scope
- Data items for collection
- Collection mechanisms
- Timeframe
- Evaluation and performance indicators
- A national community-based palliative care data collection
- Proposed characteristics of a national data collection
- Recommended data set and draft definitions
- Strategies for data collection and transfer
- Options and recommendations for future national data collection
- A way forward
- Other options considered
- Introduction
- End matter
- Appendix
- Appendix A: Palliative Care Intergovernmental Forum-Information Development Principles
- Appendix B: PalCID WG members
- Appendix C: Data collection systems
- Australian Capital Territory
- New South Wales
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Appendix D: Mapping exercise
- Appendix E: Service provider feedback sheet
- Appendix F: National Health Performance Framework
- Appendix G: Reporting requirements and sample reports provided by some States and Territories
- Appendix H: Data definitions
- Glossary
- References
- Appendix