Improving care for the end of life: a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians

Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr. Joanne Lynn and her colleagues. Improving Care for the End of Life provides expert guidance on how to make significant improvements now, at all levels of the health care system from the bedside and the hospital to the health care policyand legislative arenas by using the rapid-cycle breakthrough approach to change. INDICE: PART ONE: OVERVIEW; 1. Introduction: Continuous Quality Improvement for Better End-of-Life Care; 2. How to Make Improvement Happen; PART TWO: IMPROVED PATIENT CARE THROUGH IMPROVED PRACTICE AND SYSTEMS; 3. Preventing, Assessing and Treating Pain; 4. Managing Dyspnea and Ventilator Withdrawal; 5. Beyond the Living Will: Advance Care Planning for All Stages of Health and Disease; 6. Relationships, Spirituality and Bereavement: Support for Difficult Times; 7. Preventing and Healing Pressure Ulcers; 8. Continuity of Care: Ways to Improve Patient Confidence in the Health Care System; PART THREE: ARRANGEMENTS TO PROMOTE REFORM; 9. Hospital-Based "Palliative Care" Consults and Units; 10. Beyond Number Crunching: Ways to Use Information Systems in Quality Improvement; 11. Caring for Caregivers: Helping Staff to Provide Good Care; 12. Law, Policy, and Finance; PART FOUR: OPPORTUNITIES IN SPECIFIC DISEASES; 13. Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Opportunities to Honor Life; 14. Opportunites to Improve Care for Cancer Patients; 15. Depression and Delirium; 16. Offering End-of-Life Services to Patients with Advanced Heart or Lung Failure; 17. Conclusion:Getting Started; Appendix: Instruments; Resources; Glossary; References; Index.

• ISBN: 978-0-19-531042-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 447
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés