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Support Team Assessment Schedule

The Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS) is a clinician-rated observational instrument assessing the impact of palliative care support on patients with advanced illness and their families across seven key domains: pain, symptoms, anxiety, family well-being, communication, and support adequacy. Developed by Baker, Speck, and Cohen in 1997, the STAS has become a standard quality-of-life outcome measure in community palliative care, hospice, and research, enabling teams to systematically monitor the effectiveness of their interventions and identify patients and families in crisis.

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Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / palliative-care
  • Baker, A., Speck, P., & Cohen, D. (1997). Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS): Development of a new instrument for the evaluation of support to patients and families in palliative care. Journal of Palliative Care, 13(2), 39–45. · URL
  • Grande, G. E., Todd, C. J., & Barclay, S. I. (2009). Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS): A framework for assessing the impact of community palliative care. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 34(6), 699–710. · URL
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