Tools Measuring Quality of Death Dying and Care Completed after Death: Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties

摘要

IntroductionMeasuring the quality of care at the end of life and/or the quality of dying and death can be challenging. Some measurement tools seek to assess the quality of care immediately prior to death; others retrospectively assess, following death, the quality of end-of-life care. The comparative evaluation of the properties and application of the various instruments has been limited.