The common sense guide to improving palliative care /

Improving care for patients in the last phase of their life has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years. Having worked with hundreds of providers throughout the country, these experienced authors know what providers need when it comes to implementing a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Temas:
Palliative treatment.
Hospice care.
Palliative Care > organization & administration
Palliative Care
Quality Assurance, Health Care > methods
Terminal Care > organization & administration
Soins palliatifs.
Soins en phase terminale.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Hospice care
Palliative treatment
Palliatieve behandeling.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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