• Cross-Cultural End-of-Life Care
Supportive Care Coalition
• Organizational Assessment Tool
Supportive Care Coalition
A means of providing quantitative feedback on how well current practice meets the needs of patients and their families and of professionals. The Organizational Assessment project (1999) was undertaken to fill this gap. Guided by the messages of the Living and Healing study, existing quality of life and patient satisfaction measures were reviewed. None fully addressed needs identified by study participants. The tools which came closest to meeting criteria were the City of Hope Quality of Life patient and family tools, which, with significant modifications and additions, became the basis of the Organizational Assessment questionnaires:
