title: Performance-based palliative care in the nursing home: closing the gap between "knowing" and "practicing".
abstract: This study evaluated the impact of an experiential educational model--combining traditional didactic techniques with applied performance-based methods--on changing nursing home staff attitudes and knowledge about palliative care, and effectuating positive changes in practice outcomes such that the delivery of palliative care is moved "upstream" in the disease/treatment trajectory. Two nursing homes participated.
authors.affiliation: Metropolitan Jewish Health System, Brooklyn, New York 11220, USA. ckay@mjhs.org
authors.forename: Corinne Kay
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Kyriacou
authors.forename: Allison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nidetz
mesh_terms: D004496:Education, Continuing; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D009735:Nursing Homes; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team