INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR REGIONAL MAPPING AND EVALUATION OF END-OF-LIFE CARE

The organisation of end-of-life care is essential to the comprehensive provision of health services. Moreover, care for patients who can be expected to die predictably as a result of chronic disease is a demographically and epidemiologically growing segment of care. This is due to the population's demographic ageing and the increasing success rate of treatment for many diseases. The number of patients who will live to have more chronic diseases and significant polymorbidity in older age is thus steadily increasing. Therefore, palliative and end-of-life care is becoming a category of health services that requires predictive capacity planning, optimisation of the organisation of care, conceptual outcome evaluation, and quality monitoring.

The End of LiFe Care Information System (ELFis), which has been developed and implemented, has the ambition to meet this need without building any costly centralised data repositories and increasing the administrative burden on the system; this will be achieved by using the centralised data reporting already in place. ELFis is a representative data source and a comprehensive system for assessing the quality of this care segment.

The ELFis project is a joint project of the Vysočina Region and the Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses at the Faculty of Medicine of Masaryk University. This website's current content presents the project's status as of 1 January 2025.