Description |
xx, 377 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Series |
Breakthrough series |
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Breakthrough series guide.
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Contents |
Pt. I. Overview. 1. Introduction: Continuous Quality Improvement for Better End-of-Life Care. 2. How to Make Improvement Happen -- Pt. II. 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: Supporting People in Difficult Times. 7. Continuity of Care: Improving Patient Confidence in the Health Care System -- Pt. III. Arrangements to Promote Reform. 8. Hospital-Based Palliative Care Consults and Units. 9. Medicare Reimbursement. 10. Beyond Number Crunching: Ways to Use Information Systems in Quality Improvement. 11. Caring for Caregivers: Helping Staff to Provide Good Care. 12. Using Law and Policy to Improve End-of-Life Care -- Pt. IV. Opportunities in Specific Diseases. 13. Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Opportunities to Honor Life. 14. Opportunities 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 |
Summary |
"This compilation of insights, advice, pointers, tools, and resources relies heavily on the stories of the four dozen teams who shared in a year-long collaboration to learn how to improve care at the end of life. Sponsored by the Center to Improve Care of the Dying and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, this "Breakthrough Series Collaborative" brought together teams from the nation's leading hospitals, hospices, and health care organizations. Each tackled a series of problems that were plaguing their patients. Led by Joanne Lynn and Andrea Kabcenell, the Breakthrough Series teams made changes in four critical areas: controlling pain and other symptoms; improving advance care planning; helping and comforting patients and families; and developing continuity of care. Nearly all made substantial improvements, and stories of successful changes highlight every chapter." "Concerned clinicians and others will find here an effective approach to improving symptom management and other areas of care, while those interested in reform will discover ways to promote and implement it. The book provides specific information on all major causes of death and describes opportunities for improving the quality of life for those affected by them."--BOOK JACKET |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index |
Subject |
Death.
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Palliative treatment.
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Terminal care.
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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 -- organization & administration.
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Terminal Care -- organization & administration.
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Author |
Kabcenell, Andrea.
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Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
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Schuster, Janice Lynch.
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Center to Improve Care of the Dying.
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Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
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LC no. |
99045308 |
ISBN |
0195116615 (alk. paper) |
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