Improving Care for the End of Life
Subtitle: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians
By: Joanne Lynn ... [et al.] ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick.
Contributors: Lynn, Joanne, 1951-.; Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Edition: Second Edition
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
ISBN-13: 9780195310429
Subjects: Terminal care; Palliative treatment; Death; Terminal Care -- organization & administration; Palliative Care -- organization & administration; Patient-Centered Care -- organization & administration
Description: 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 policy and legislative arenas by using the rapid-cycle breakthrough approach to change. Thoroughly updated references. The sourcebook speaks to all managers of health care systems serving people with serious illnesses.
Notes: "The Institute for Healthcare Improvement."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 425-435) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care; title: How to make improvement happen; title: Preventing, assessing and treating pain; title: Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal; title: Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease; title: Supporting people in difficult times: relationships, spirituality, and bereavement; title: Continuity of care: improving transitions, continuity, and coordination of care in the health care system; title: Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care; title: Hospital-based palliative care consults and units; title: Law , policy, and finance; title: Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life; title: Opportunites to improve care for cancer patients; title: Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure; title: Depression and delirium; title: Conclusion: getting started.