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Palliative home care can we improve quality by
implementing shared care?
Trine Brogaard, MD, PhD student Research Unit
for General Practice Aarhus University
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The next 10 minutes

• Definition
• What is shared care good for and why do we need
  it?
• How?

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Definition Shared care

• Shared care is the joint participation of
  general practitioners and hospital consultants in
  the planned delivery of care for patients with a
  chronic condition, informed by an enhanced
  information exchange over and above routine
  discharge and referral letters.
• Hickman M, Drummond N, Grimshaw J. A taxonomy of
  shared care for chronic disease. J Public Health
  Med 199416(4)447-454

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Shared care how?

• Consciousness about the professional needs of
  colleagues also caring for the patient
• Awareness of the fact that we are all colleagues
  who has to cooperate

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Shared care how?

• Joint effort to place the responsibility so that
  this is clear to patient, relatives and all
  health care professionals
• Create easy lines of communication between all
  professionals involved

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Take home message

• Cooperation
• You dont have to do it on your own
• Proactive, practical, holistic thinking
• Get it right the first time

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Thank you for your attention!

• trine.brogaard_at_alm.au.dk

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