The Resource Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians, Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Don Berwick
Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians, Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Don Berwick
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- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xx, 377 p.
- Contents
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- Ch. 1. Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care
- Ch. 2. How to make improvement happen
- Ch. 3. Preventing, assessing, and treating pain
- Ch. 4. Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal
- Ch. 5. Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease
- Ch. 6. Relationships, spirituality, and bereavement: supporting people in difficult times
- Ch. 7. Continuity of care: improving patient confidence in the health care system
- Ch. 8. Hospital-based palliative care consults and units
- Ch. 9. Medicare reimbursement
- Ch. 10. Beyond number crunching: ways to use information systems in quality improvement
- Ch. 11. Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care
- Ch. 12. Using law and policy to improve end-of-life care
- Ch. 13. Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life
- Ch. 14. Opportunities to improve care for cancer patients
- Ch. 15. Depression and delirium
- Ch. 16. Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure
- Ch. 17. Conclusion: getting started
- Isbn
- 9780195116618
- Label
- Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
- Title
- Improving care for the end of life
- Title remainder
- a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
- Statement of responsibility
- Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Don Berwick
- Language
- eng
- Action
- Committed to retain
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1951-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Lynn, Joanne
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RM301.25
- LC item number
- .T94 2000
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Schuster, Janice Lynch
- Kabcenell, Andrea
- Center to Improve Care of the Dying
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Terminal care
- Palliative treatment
- Death
- Label
- Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians, Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Don Berwick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359) and index
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care -- Ch. 2. How to make improvement happen -- Ch. 3. Preventing, assessing, and treating pain -- Ch. 4. Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal -- Ch. 5. Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease -- Ch. 6. Relationships, spirituality, and bereavement: supporting people in difficult times -- Ch. 7. Continuity of care: improving patient confidence in the health care system -- Ch. 8. Hospital-based palliative care consults and units -- Ch. 9. Medicare reimbursement -- Ch. 10. Beyond number crunching: ways to use information systems in quality improvement -- Ch. 11. Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care -- Ch. 12. Using law and policy to improve end-of-life care -- Ch. 13. Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life -- Ch. 14. Opportunities to improve care for cancer patients -- Ch. 15. Depression and delirium -- Ch. 16. Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure -- Ch. 17. Conclusion: getting started
- Control code
- 42204713
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xx, 377 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195116618
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99045308
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians, Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell, the Center to Improve Care of the Dying, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Don Berwick
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-359) and index
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care -- Ch. 2. How to make improvement happen -- Ch. 3. Preventing, assessing, and treating pain -- Ch. 4. Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal -- Ch. 5. Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease -- Ch. 6. Relationships, spirituality, and bereavement: supporting people in difficult times -- Ch. 7. Continuity of care: improving patient confidence in the health care system -- Ch. 8. Hospital-based palliative care consults and units -- Ch. 9. Medicare reimbursement -- Ch. 10. Beyond number crunching: ways to use information systems in quality improvement -- Ch. 11. Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care -- Ch. 12. Using law and policy to improve end-of-life care -- Ch. 13. Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life -- Ch. 14. Opportunities to improve care for cancer patients -- Ch. 15. Depression and delirium -- Ch. 16. Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure -- Ch. 17. Conclusion: getting started
- Control code
- 42204713
- Dimensions
- 26 cm
- Extent
- xx, 377 p.
- Isbn
- 9780195116618
- Isbn Type
- (alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 99045308
- Other physical details
- ill.
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