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The common sense guide to improving palliative care
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- Creator
- Joanne Lynn ... [and others]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- vi, 264 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780195310412, 9780199748334, 0199748330, 0195310411
- OCLC
- ocm67817037
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- Palliative treatment.
- Hospice care.
- Palliative Care -- organization & administration -- United States.
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- Quality Assurance, Health Care -- methods -- United States.
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- Terminal Care -- organization & administration -- United States.
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