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Target Population

The hospitalized patients with higher needs for holistic care.


Description

  • To develop discipline-specific holistic care issues based on the classification of diseases.

  • To develop a holistic assessment tool that encompasses comprehensive physical, mental, social, and spiritual issues. While aligning with international standards, the tool will serve diverse patient populations, present individual patient profiles, and enable personalized holistic care.

  • To integrate and implement the holistic care model promotion.

 


Key Highlights

  • Through the Five Dimensional Care approach to introduce disease-specific holistic care issues.

  • Use the SPARC-T holistic assessment tool to establish a patient-initiated holistic care team.

 

Service Data

  • SPARC-T has passed reliability and validity testing; it was published in an international journal.

  • SPARC-T demonstrated significantly higher depression screening rates in comparison with the mood thermometer (53.8% vs 17.4%).


Featured Outcomes

  • Psychiatry consultation: 2,371 patients

  • Social work consultation: 2,131 patients

  • Discharge planning services: 1,010 patients

  • Consultation rate: 9.14%

  • BSRS diagnostic rate: 16/92 = 17.4%

  • SPARC-T diagnostic rate: 28/52 = 53.8% (>3x improvement over BSRS)

  • Breast cancer gynecology referral rate: increased from 30.6% to 48.3%

  • Bone density screening arrangement: increased from 30.6% to 48.3%

  • Gynecology referral rate: increased from 42.9% to 77.7%

  • Established 26 medical departments with 46 disease-specific holistic care topics


Safety Outcomes

  • SPARC-T is a structured assessment tool for objective identification of biopsychosocial-spiritual concerns

  • Standardized referral criteria ensure timely consultation and care

  • Interdisciplinary collaboration reduces care gaps

  • 2024 Breast Cancer Care Quality Certification achieved


Satisfaction

  • High patient engagement in completing holistic care forms

  • Enhanced patient social value and quality of life

  • Reduced analgesic use, osteoporosis prevention, improved oocyte preservation opportunities

  • Established support services including patient support groups, comfort pillows, and drainage bag straps


International Achievements

  • A SPARC-T holistic medical assessment scale for global Chinese populations.

  • SPARC-Spanish, a Spanish version of SPARC-T; it was published in an international journal in 2024 and has been cited three times.

  • Currently collaborating with research teams from the UK and Colombia to form an international research group.


Benefits and Impacts

  • Transforms teaching into clinical practice, addressing hollow holistic care rhetoric

  • Objective, standardized holistic care model improves measurability

  • Precise individualized care with timely identification of high-risk needs

  • Interdisciplinary collaboration enhances care quality and integration

  • Demonstrates Taiwan's implementation and international leadership in holistic medicine

  • Provides reference model for multiple domestic hospitals (Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Wei Gong Memorial Hospital, Juan General Hospital, etc.)

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Holistic Healthcare

A holistic care model using standardized assessment and interdisciplinary teamwork to provide integrated physical, psychological, spiritual, and social care.
Organization
Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare
Specialties/Units
Department of Medical Education, Center for Evidence-Based Healthcare
Certification Year
2024、2025
Holistic Healthcare
Taipei Medical University-Shuang Ho Hospital, Ministry of Health and Welfare

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