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End of life care : a practical guide / editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel S. Policzer.

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End of life care : a practical guide / editors, Barry M. Kinzbrunner, Joel S. Policzer.

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Additional Authors
  • Kinzbrunner, Barry M.
  • Policzer, Joel S.
Description
xxii, 858 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"The most thorough text available on providing patients and families with quality end-of-life care. End of Life Care: A Practical Guide offers solution-oriented coverage of the real-world issues and challenges that arise daily for clinicians caring for those with life-limiting illnesses and conditions. End of Life Care: A Practical Guide includes specific clinical guidance for pain management and other common end of life symptoms. The second edition has been made even more essential with the addition of chapter-ending Q&A for self assessment and board review, new coverage of multicultural medicine, an increased number of algorithms to assist decision making on complicated clinical, legal, and ethical issues. Six sections walk you through the complexities of caring for patients who are nearing the end of life."--Provided by publisher.
Subject
  • Advance Directives
  • Hospice care
  • Palliative Care > methods
  • Palliative Care > psychology
  • Terminal Care > methods
  • Terminal Care > psychology
  • Terminal care
  • Terminally ill > Care
ISBN
  • 0071545271 (alk. paper)
  • 9780071545273 (alk. paper)
LCCN
2010041766
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries