title: Validity of the end-of-life professional caregiver survey to assess for multidisciplinary educational needs.
abstract: The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP) has put forth eight domains of clinical practice guidelines that address the multidisciplinary nature of palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. Extant surveys to assess education needs of palliative and EOL workers, however, have been constructed for individual professions. Thus we developed the End-of-life Professional Caregiver Survey (EPCS) as an instrument for assessing the palliative and EOL care-specific educational needs of multidisciplinary professionals.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Nursing, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazenby
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ercolano
authors.forename: Dena
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Schulman-Green
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McCorkle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016223:Advance Directives; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D020380:Needs Assessment; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology* / Q000592:standards; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D055815:Young Adult