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100 1 Lynn, Joanne
245 10 Improving Care for the End of Life :|bA Sourcebook for
Health Care Managers and Clinicians
250 2nd ed
264 1 Cary :|bOxford University Press USA - OSO,|c2007
264 4 |c©2008
300 1 online resource (464 pages)
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505 0 Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: Overview -- 1
Introduction: Continuous Quality Improvement for Better
End-of-Life Care -- 2 How to Make Improvement Happen --
Part II: Improved Patient Care Through Improved Practice
and Systems -- 3 Preventing, Assessing, and Treating Pain
-- 4 Managing Dyspnea and Ventilator Withdrawal -- 5
Beyond the Living Will: Advance Care Planning for All
Stages of Health and Disease -- 6 Supporting People in
Difficult Times: Relationships, Spirituality, and
Bereavement -- 7 Continuity of Care: Improving Transitions,
Continuity, and Coordination of Care in the Health Care
System -- Part III: Arrangements to Promote Reform -- 8
Caring for the Caregivers: Helping Staff to Provide Good
Care -- 9 Hospital-Based Palliative Care Consults and
Units -- 10 Law, Policy, and Finance -- Part IV:
Opportunities in Specific Diseases -- 11 Alzheimer's and
Other Dementias: Opportunities to Honor Life -- 12
Opportunities to Improve Care for Cancer Patients -- 13
Offering End-of-Life Services to Patients With Advanced
Heart or Lung Failure -- 14 Depression and Delirium -- 15
Conclusion: Getting Started -- Appendix: Instruments --
Resources -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -
- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V --
References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G --
H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -
- T -- U -- V -- W
520 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
588 Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other
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590 Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
Ebook Central, 2020. Available via World Wide Web. Access
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650 0 Terminal care.;Palliative treatment.;Death
655 4 Electronic books
700 1 Schuster, Janice Lynch
700 1 Simon, Lin Noyes
700 1 Wilkinson, Anne
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