Stephen Toft - Programme Officer Palliative Care, HSE Primary Care Division, specialist palliative care minimum data set acute hospital figures 2016 and 2017 per hospital.

1. Palliative Care – Acute MDS Information
Session
Tuesday 20th March 2018
Stephen Toft
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2. History
Concept 2013
Data Pilot 2014
Go Live 2015
2 datasets - Inpatient
- Outpatient
Partial submissions 2016
96% data compliance 2017
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3. Metric list
Ages
Gender
Patient Outcomes
Patient Visits
Primary Diagnosis
Re referrals
New referrals
Outcome time
Wait time
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4. 4
26
2,550
9,336
Ages when 1st seen
Age when first seen - 0-17 years Age when first seen - 18-64 years
Age when first seen - 65 years or over
There were 26
children seen
by the
Specialist
palliative care
team in an
Acute setting
in 2017

5. Gender
Female 47.9%
Male 52.1%
Difference is 495 people
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6. Patient Outcome 6
36%
6%36%
5%
9%
8%
Died in hospital
Discharged from service
Discharged to normal place of
residence with community
palliative care
Discharged to normal place of
residence without community
palliative care
Discharged to specialist IPU

7. Visits 97,842 7
24356
70314
3172
Joint visits (two or more team
members see together)
Single visit (one team member)
Total number of outpatient
review visits

8. Service equality
Cancer 57.8%
Non Cancer 42.2%
Inpatient re-referrals 4168
New referrals 11880
1st seen as outpatient 1368
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9. Patient outcome times 9
33.4%
5.6%
61.0%
8-28 days
29 days and over
within 7 days

10. 95.4% (14,163) Patients
received Specialist Palliative
Care in an Acute setting
within 2 calendar days
4.6% (685) > 2 days
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