| Description |
vi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
An orientation -- Basics of quality improvement -- Advance care planning -- Preventing, assessing, and treating pain -- Assuring comfort -- Caring for caregivers -- Continuity and transfers -- Chronic care: heart and lung failure -- Nursing home quality: pressure ulcers -- Improving care for people with advanced dementia and their families -- Improving intensive care units -- Building a palliative care program -- Hospice program quality -- End-of-life care, spiritual support, and bereavement -- Beyond quality improvement: policy improvement |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Hospice care.
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Palliative treatment.
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Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods.
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Terminal Care -- organization & administration.
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Palliative Care -- organization & administration.
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United States. |
| Author |
Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
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| LC no. |
2006012754 |
| ISBN |
9780195310412 paperback |
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0195310411 paperback |
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