The common sense guide to improving palliative care / Joanne Lynn ... [et al.].
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2007.Description: vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780195310412 (pbk.) :
- 0195310411 (pbk.) :
- Palliative treatment
- Hospice care
- Palliative Care -- organization & administration -- United States
- Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods -- United States
- Terminal Care -- organization & administration -- United States
- Palliative Care -- organization & administration
- Terminal Care -- organization & administration
- Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods
- United States
- 616.029 22
- 616.029
- LGHEDU R726.8.C65 2007
- R726.8 .C66 2007
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Formerly CIP. Uk
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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