# Quality Improvement Summit on Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care in Urology

> **NIH AHRQ R13** · AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION · 2021 · $29,865

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract:
 Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care in Urology
The American Urological Association (AUA) is requesting an AHRQ Conference Grant to support convening a
Quality Improvement Summit on Improving Use of Palliative Care in Urology, with discussion focusing on:
management of the disease course of individuals with advanced benign and malignant urologic diseases,
identification of the aspects of palliative care services that may be offered in a urology practice, overview of
current palliative care workforce, and the development of a health services and educational agenda that
advances urologist-palliative care partnerships. The AUA’s Quality Improvement Summits address quality
issues, define clinical problems, facilitate information exchange on quality efforts by clinicians across
disciplines and care settings, and educate urology practitioners, primary care physicians, and specialists about
developing patient-centered quality improvement programs. For its 2020 summit, the AUA will convene a multi-
disciplinary panel of speakers to take part in a collaborative effort dedicated to addressing the palliative care
needs of patients with advanced urological health conditions. The 2020 Summit will provide a unique and
timely opportunity to accelerate the application of evidence into practice by bringing together physicians,
researchers, and professional societies spanning the disciplines of urology, palliative care, other surgical
specialties, psychiatry, and pain management around the shared goal of improving care delivery as it relates to
the intersection of urology and palliative care. Our specific aims:
Aim 1. To review the experiences of urologists and palliative care clinicians in managing the disease course of
individuals with advanced benign and malignant urologic diseases. This will include assessments of the
settings in which goals of care, prognosis, diagnosis, advance care planning, goals of operations and
procedures, and physical and psychological symptom management are currently being pursued.
Aim 2. To summarize and consolidate current data related to what aspects of care are most important to
improve quality in individuals with advanced urologic conditions.
Aim 3. To define current palliative care capacity, and aspects of palliative care that could be provided by
urologists in a mixed-model setting.
Aim 4. To create a health services research, policy, and dissemination agenda that advances urologist-
palliative care partnerships to ensure that all aspects of care are adequately addressed in those with advanced
disease.
Aim 5. To build a national interdisciplinary implementation partnership to implement best practices agreed
upon at the summit.
Through the completion of these aims, we will better understand the gaps in care for urologists caring for
advanced urological health conditions and work to construct an educational and clinical quality improvement
implementation strategy to improve the care of men and women...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10093618
- **Project number:** 1R13HS027765-01
- **Recipient organization:** AMERICAN UROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
- **Principal Investigator:** John L. Gore
- **Activity code:** R13 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** AHRQ
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $29,865
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2021-09-30 → 2022-09-29

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10093618

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10093618, Quality Improvement Summit on Opportunities to Improve Palliative Care in Urology (1R13HS027765-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10093618. Licensed CC0.

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