Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

This episode features Hannah Scott, (King’s College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing Midwifery and Palliative Care, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK)   What is already known about the topic? Person-centred outcome measures have been shown to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes in adult palliative care when successfully implemented into routine care. Several factors influence implementation in adult services, but they have not been identified in care for children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions. The views of stakeholders are key to successful development, implementation and use of outcome measures in practice.   What this paper adds? Perceived benefits of using person-centred outcome measures include enhanced understanding of what matters to patients and families, improved communication and collaborative working and standardised data collection and reporting; perceived risks include negative impacts on care and measures not being used as intended. Potentia