Palliative care Outcome Scale Banner
Home » What is POS » Background  You are not logged in. Login or Register
 
  Click here to show all sections

POS early development ▼

POS was developed in 1999 for use with patients with advanced disease, and to improve outcome measurement by evaluating many essential and important outcomes in palliative care. The Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS), developed in 1986, was the precursor to POS. STAS was constructed to evaluate the work of palliative care support teams and consisted of 17 items, to be rated from 0 (best) to 4 (worst) by a professional caring for the patient.
 
POS builds on some of the strengths of the STAS, such as clinical application and ease of use. Importantly, POS also allows patients to self complete the assessments. POS is therefore a patient reported outcome measure when the patient version of POS is used. POS has demonstrated construct validity acceptable test/re-test reliability for seven items, and good internal consistency. Importantly, POS takes less than 10 minutes to complete by staff or patients.
 

POS continuous improvement ▼

POS current developments ▼

POS future developments ▼

  POS supporters and collaborators
 
Buildcare logo
 
Cicely Saunders International logo
 
Cicely Saunders International logo
 
King's College London logo
 
King's Health Partners logo
 
OACC logo
 
 
« What is POS © 2012 Cicely Saunders Institute    Terms and conditions    Site map    Contact POS and IPOS Summary »