title: Improving palliative care: audit and standards.
abstract: This report is based on an occasional paper prepared for the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services. The paper acknowledges that although quality is already central to the palliative care approach, this is not usually in the context of multidisciplinary and collaborative audit. The document offers guidance on how to translate the principles of quality into an action programme for all professionals involved in palliative and hospice care.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008485:Medical Audit / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000592:standards*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*