Chameleon project: a children’s end-of-life care quality improvement project

• Published in: BMJ open quality Vol. 10; no. 4; p. e001520
• Main Authors: Wolff, Toni, Dorsett, Caroline, Connolly, Alexander, Kelly, Nicola, Turnbull, Jennifer, Deorukhkar, Anjum, Clements, Helena, Griffin, Hayley, Chhaochharia, Anjana, Haynes, Sarah, Webb, Kerry, Manning, Joseph C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England British Medical Journal Publishing Group 01.12.2021; BMJ Publishing Group LTD; BMJ Publishing Group
• Subjects: Child; Children & youth; Community health care; Critical care; Data collection; Education; Families & family life; Hospice Care; Hospitalization; Hospitals; Humans; length of stay; Medical records; Nurse specialists; Nurses; paediatrics; Palliative care; Pediatrics; Planning; Quality control; Quality Improvement; Quality Improvement Report; State Medicine; Teams; Terminal Care; United Kingdom > UK; England; paediatrics; length of stay; palliative Care

In response to there being no specialist paediatric palliative care (PPC) team in a region of England, we undertook a 12-month quality improvement project (funded by National Health Service England’s Marginal Rate Emergency Threshold and Readmission fund) to improve children’s end-of-life care.Impro...