The effect of an educational program for healthcare professionals focused on quality of life assessment in palliative care patients: the INFO-QoL educational program - NET2017 Conference

Despite quality of life assessment is a central concept in palliative care practice (WHO 2002) the standardized application of clinical interventions focused on assessing quality of life in clinical practice is limited.
Recently a systematic review recommended to tailor the implementation of patient-reported outcome measures in palliative care according to the setting have a coordinator throughout the implementation process offer all staff an educational program and recognize the ongoing cognitive and emotional processes in each individual (Antunes et al. 2014).