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The common sense guide to improving palliative care / Joanne Lynn ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.Description: vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780195310412 (pbk.) :
  • 0195310411 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 616.029 22
  • 616.029
  • LGHEDU R726.8.C65 2007
LOC classification:
  • R726.8 .C66 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Written by a number of experts on quality improvement on palliative care, this book highlights areas in most frequent need of improvement, and encourages and supports those just beginning a quality improvement project.
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2 Week Loan Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Library, Drogheda Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital Library, Drogheda Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda 616.029 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available DR09008
4 Week Loan St. Conal’s Hospital, Letterkenny St. Conal’s Hospital, Letterkenny Letterkenny University Hospital Library R726.8.C65 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available B04524
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Written by a number of experts on quality improvement on palliative care, this book highlights areas in most frequent need of improvement, and encourages and supports those just beginning a quality improvement project.

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