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Needs Assessment and Hospice Planning in a Rural Setting

Colene M. Byrne

Indiana University of Pennsylvania

A needs assessment is a research and planning activity designed to determine a community's service needs and utilization patterns. One of the most practical ways to plan services is to gather information accurately about a definedpopulation and use that information to revise existing programs or develop new ones. Unfortunately, needs assessment findings often go unused. This article describes how a needs assessment was designed to assess the need for hospice services in a rural Pennsylvania county and how the results of this assessment were useful in determining priorities for program planning and service development. The implications of a model needs assessment such as the one proposed are discussed.

Evaluation & the Health Professions, Vol. 7, No. 2, 205-219 (1984)
DOI: 10.1177/016327878400700206
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