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Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians / Joanne Lynn ... [et al.] ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Terminal care.
- Palliative treatment.
- Death.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr. Joanne Lynn and her colleagues. Improving Care for the End of Life provides expert guidance on how to make significant improvements now, at all levels of the health care system from the bedside and the hospital to the health care policy and legislative arenas by using the rapid-cycle breakthrough approach to change. The ideas are proven, and the stories of teams that have put them to use will inspire and enlighten. For the second edition, the authors have added new material on continuity of care and the special needs of dementia patients and their loved ones and have updated the book throughout.
- Contents:
- Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care
- How to make improvement happen
- Preventing, assessing and treating pain
- Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal
- Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease
- Supporting people in difficult times: relationships, spirituality, and bereavement
- Continuity of care: improving transitions, continuity, and coordination of care in the health care system
- Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care
- Hospital-based palliative care consults and units
- Law , policy, and finance
- Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life
- Opportunites to improve care for cancer patients
- Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure
- Depression and delirium
- Conclusion: getting started.
- Notes:
- "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement."
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-54377-6
- 9786612543777
- 0-19-974834-9
- OCLC:
- 821629025
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