Mentors at seven United States and Australian academic institutions partnered with seven leading Indian academic palliative care and cancer centers to undertake a program combining remote and in-person mentorship, didactic instruction, and project-based learning in quality improvement. From its inception in 2017 to 2020, the Promoting Assessment and Improvement of the Cancer Experience (PC-PAICE) Program conducted three cohorts for capacity building of 22 Indian palliative care and cancer programs. Indian leadership established a Mumbai training hub in 2019 with philanthropic support, Quality Improvement Hub (e.g., QI-Hub) India. In 2020 the project which now focuses on both palliative care and cancer teams as EQuIP-India. EQuIP now leads ongoing Indian national collaboratives and training in quality improvement and is integrated into India's National Cancer Grid. PC-PAICE demonstrates a feasible model of international collaboration and capacity building in palliative care and cancer quality improvement. It is one of several networked, blended learning approaches with potential for rapid scaling of evidence-based practices.
The Palliative Care - Promoting Assessment and Improvement of the Cancer Experience (PC-PAICE) Project: A Multi-Site International Quality Improvement Collaborative