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Evaluating & Improving Care

We improve the care and treatment of patients and their families by studying and understanding opportunities to optimise services, developing and trialing refined or new models of care, and providing evidence about the effects of care and treatment.  

Informed by observational studies and comparative effectiveness evaluations, we seek to develop, evaluate and implement new models of palliative and end of life care suited to multimorbidity, with integration that extends into and beyond disease-centred specialties, such as rehabilitation, geriatrics, primary and social care. Our work aims to build understanding around relevant indicators of need including symptoms, existing and new delivery models such as short-term integrated palliative care, and health and social care outcomes including evaluation of service use and costs.

Our study designs include randomised multicentre trials, feasibility testing and evaluation, systematic reviews, service modelling and theory development. We draw on guidance for the development and evaluation of complex interventions from the Medical Research Council, the MORECare statement specifically for palliative care and our recent MORECare Capacity statement on the process of consent for research on end of life care. 

Research projects

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International Access Rights & Empowerment II

Principal investigators: Irene J Higginson.

IARE II is an observational study of frail older people who do not have access to specialist palliative care services.

Project status: Ongoing

Out-of-Hours Community Palliative Care

Principal investigators: Richard Harding, Fliss Murtagh.

Understanding and improving community-based palliative care outside of normal working hours.

Project status: Ongoing

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