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Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
- Title
- Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians / Joanne Lynn [and others] ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | R726.8 .L96 2008 | Off-site | |
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- Description
- xvi, 447 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Note
- "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care -- How to make improvement happen -- Preventing, assessing and treating pain -- Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal -- Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease -- Supporting people in difficult times: relationships, spirituality, and bereavement -- Continuity of care: improving transitions, continuity, and coordination of care in the health care system -- Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care -- Hospital-based palliative care consults and units -- Law , policy, and finance -- Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life -- Opportunites to improve care for cancer patients -- Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure -- Depression and delirium -- Conclusion: getting started.
- ISBN
- 9780195310429 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 019531042X (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006036855
- OCLC
- ocm76074076
- 76074076
- SCSB-5356997
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries