Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians / / Joanne Lynn ... [et al.] ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 447 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement." |
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Table of 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.