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POS and IPOS Training Days 2024
The annual Palliative Outcome Scale (POS + IPOS) Training Days will be held in HYBRID format, both in-person (at the Cicely Saunders Institute at King’s College London) and online on May 1st and 2nd, 2024. This event will be an excellent opportunity to learn about the POS family of measures, discover new developments in palliative care outcomes measurement, and collaborate with like-minded clinicians and researchers from around the world.
Registration is now open, register here.
We are requesting abstracts for either a short oral presentation or a poster presentation of your experiences using the POS family of measures in your research and/or practice, to be made at the workshops. The form is here. The deadline for submission was 3 March 2024.
Day 1 will cover POS + IPOS essentials in 3 sessions for those using the measures in Research, Health and Social Care. You will hear from POS and IPOS experts as well as clinicians and researchers who use the POS family of measures in their everyday work. Each session will end with Q&A. The session topics are as follows:
Day 2 will continue with more advanced discussions about how to use and implement POS and IPOS in your work. The day will be broken into 3 sessions, including methodological sessions, and presentations by clinicians, researchers, implementation scientists, biostatisticians, and patient and public involvement (PPI) experts. The session topics are as follows:
More about the POS family of measures
POS measures assesses physical symptoms, emotional, psychological and spiritual needs, and needs for information and support. Culturally adapted and translated versions of POS measures are also available in more than twelve languages (see www.pos-pal.org for more information). There are disease specific, generic and integrated versions available for use such as Integrated POS (IPOS), for Dementia (IPOS-Dem), Myeloma-specific version of the POS (MyPOS), specific version for renal patients (IPOS-Renal). You can find more information from the menu above.
Are these workshops for you?
The event is for professionals from around the world including nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, psychologists, occupational therapists, social workers, managers, allied professionals, commissioners and researchers with an interest in clinical application, routine use and research using the Palliative Outcome Scale (POS + IPOS) measures, and their application in various settings, patient groups, purposes, quality improvement, multimorbidity and economic evaluation.
If you are already using or planning to use or implement POS or similar outcome measures these sessions will equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills.
There will be opportunities to share issues relevant to your organisation as well as learning from the other attendees' experience and challenges.
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POS supporters and collaborators
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