The palliative care—promoting access and improvement of the cancer experience (PC-PAICE) project in India: A multisite international quality improvement collaborative

Authors

Karl A. Lorenz
Jake Mickelsen
Nandini Vallath
Sushma Bhatnagar
Odette Spruyt
Michael Rabow
Meera Agar
Sydney M. Dy
Karen Anderson, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Jayita Deodhar
Leela Digamurti
Gayatri Palat
Spandana Rayala
M. M. Sunilkumar
Vidya Viswanath
Jyothi Jayan Warrier
Sarbani Gosh-Laskar
Stephanie M. Harman
Karleen F. Giannitrapani
Anchal Satija
C. S. Pramesh
Michelle DeNatale

Document Type

Journal Article

Publication Title

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volume

61

Issue

1

First Page

190

Last Page

197

PubMed ID

32858163

Publisher

Elsevier

School

School of Arts and Humanities

RAS ID

35966

Funders

Tata Trusts Stanford Healthcare Stanford University

Comments

Lorenz, K. A., Mickelsen, J., Vallath, N., Bhatnagar, S., Spruyt, O., Rabow, M., ... DeNatale, M. (2021). The palliative care—promoting access and improvement of the cancer experience (PC-PAICE) project in India: A multisite international quality improvement collaborative. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 61(1), 190-197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.025

Abstract

© 2020 Mentors at seven U.S. and Australian academic institutions initially partnered with seven leading Indian academic palliative care and cancer centers in 2017 to undertake a program combining remote and in-person mentorship, didactic instruction, and project-based learning in quality improvement (QI). From its inception in 2017 to 2020, the Palliative Care—Promoting Accesst and Improvement of the Cancer Experience Program conducted three cohorts for capacity building of 22 Indian palliative care and cancer programs. Indian leadership established a Mumbai QI training hub in 2019 with philanthropic support. In 2020, the project which is now named Enable Quality, Improve Patient care - India (EQuIP-India) focuses on both palliative care and cancer teams. EQuIP-India now leads ongoing Indian national collaboratives and training in QI and is integrated into India's National Cancer Grid. Palliative Care—Promoting Accesst and Improvement of the Cancer Experience demonstrates a feasible model of international collaboration and capacity building in palliative care and cancer QI. It is one of the several networked and blended learning approaches with potential for rapid scaling of evidence-based practices.

DOI

10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2020.08.025

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