Assessment of quality in specialist palliative care service delivery for Indigenous Australians

John Woods

doi:10.26182/sac6-4039

Assessment of quality in specialist palliative care service delivery for Indigenous Australians

John Woods

School of Population and Global Health

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Abstract

Multi-jurisdictional data routinely collected by the Australian Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration during the period 01/01/2010–30/06/2015 (N=144,951 patients) were used to investigate equity of specialist palliative care provided to Indigenous (n=1515) compared with non-Indigenous patients. Indigenous Australians were substantially underrepresented in care by participating services, likely reflecting a combination of access barriers and limited involvement of services in rural and remote areas. Indigenous patients also experienced modestly disproportionate delays in initiation of care episodes but these delays appeared not to result in poorer clinical status at entry. Indigenous and non-Indigenous patients fared similarly in relation to other benchmarked quality-of-care measures.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	The University of Western Australia
Supervisors/Advisors	Thompson, Sandra, Supervisor Johnson, Claire, Supervisor Katzenellenbogen, Judith, Supervisor Ngo, Hanh, Supervisor
Thesis sponsors	Australian Government Research Training Program
Award date	7 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26182/sac6-4039
Publication status	Unpublished - 2021

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