Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care

Name: Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
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ISBN: 9780195310412

ISBN-10: 0195310411

ISBN-13: 9780195310412

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joanne Lynn, Ekta Chaudhry, Lin Noyes Simon, Anne M. Wilkinson, Janice Lynch Schuster

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Written by the leading quality improvement experts and clinicians, The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care provides a quick and easy "how-to" introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work and includes dozens of ideas for change that most groups can put into practice - now! In today's healthcare settings, too many patients and families suffer needlessly for dozens of reasons. Healthcare teams can and must take charge of reform. With equal measures of proven, practical advice and encouragement, The Common Sense Guide enables them to do just that in a wide array of settings.

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/8/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.39" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English




An Orientation



Basics of Quality Improvement



Advance Care Planning



Preventing, Assessing, and Treating Pain



Assuring Comfort



Caring for Caregivers



Continuity and Transfers



Chronic Care


Heart and Lung Failure



Nursing Home Quality


Pressure Ulcers



Improving Care for People with Advanced Dementia and Their Families



Improving Intensive Care Units



Building a Palliative Care Program



Hospice Program Quality



End-of-Life Care, Spiritual Support, and Bereavement



Beyond Quality Improvement


Policy Improvement