| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 447 pages) : illustrations |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-435) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Palliative treatment.
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Death.
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Terminal Care -- organization & administration
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Palliative Care -- organization & administration
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Patient-Centered Care -- organization & administration
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Palliative Care
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Death
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deaths.
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MEDICAL -- Terminal Care.
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Death
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Palliative treatment
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Terminal care
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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| LC no. |
2006036855 |
| ISBN |
9780199748341 |
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0199748349 |
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