Abstract
Recently, the Italian government earmarked 450 billion lira, approximately 238 million dollars, to the development of hospices, and more funding next year is expected for the establishment of palliative care services in hospitals throughout the country. Here Dr. Franco Toscani speaks about the importance of audit for the future of palliative care in Italy and describes his use of Irene Higginson’s Support Team Assessment Schedule, commonly known as the STAS, in both research and as an audit tool at the Palliative Care Unit he directs in Cremona, Italy. This interview is excerpted from a thematic issue, “Measuring Quality in Palliative Care,” Volume 2, Number 1, 2000 of the online journal Innovations in End-ofLife Care at http://www.edc.org/lastacts/.
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