PCOC SAS is a patient-reported scale used to measure subjective aspects related to health. It evaluates perceived distress. Although designed to be used by patients from any disease or treatment group and age, it can be used by proxies . The scale assesses eight dimensions: pain, insomnia (difficulty sleeping), nausea, bowel problems, appetite ...

2023年10月30日 · PCOC helps palliative care providers to identify and measure the impact of their service delivery on people with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers.

The PCOC Symptom Assessment Scale (SAS) is a patient-rated tool to measure the amount of distress caused by seven of the most common symptoms in palliative care. Staff need to know how bothered, worried or distressed patients are by each of the symptoms in order to effectively manage what matters to patients.

PCOC is a national palliative care project funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care.

PCOC provides clinicians with tools to systematically assess individual patient experiences using validated clinical assessment tools. It is helpful to view assessments as palliative care observations or vital signs.

PCOC is a convergent substitution detection tool with two main facets: I. PCOC allows users to detect convergence in an empirical dataset (species tree and amino-acid alignment). II. PCOC allows users to simulate a dataset and compare the power of …

2021年3月25日 · PCOC SAS is a valid and reliable patient-reported outcome measure suitable for use in routine clinical care with patients requiring palliative and or end-of-life care, including in national outcomes programs.

2021年3月25日 · PCOC SAS is a valid and reliable patient-reported outcome measure suitable for use in routine clinical care with patients requiring palliative and or end-of-life care, including in national outcomes programs.

Embedding PCOC into routine clinical practice is key. This is because PCOC can help drive improvements and shape models of care. The manual includes: definitions (assessment tools and data items), forms for palliative care assessment, and information on the PCOC benchmarks and outcome measures.

PCOC supports palliative care providers to identify and measure the impact of their service on people with life-limiting illnesses and their carers, including families. PCOC has shown that in Australia over the last decade: Those with great need may be disproportionately burdened due to limited access to specialist palliative care as: