"The Institute for Healthcare Improvement."
Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care
How to make improvement happen
Preventing, assessing and treating pain
Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal
Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease
Supporting people in difficult times: relationships, spirituality, and bereavement
Continuity of care: improving transitions, continuity, and coordination of care in the health care system
Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care
Hospital-based palliative care consults and units
Law, policy, and finance
Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life
Opportunites to improve care for cancer patients
Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure
Depression and delirium
Conclusion: getting started.
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Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians. ISBN 9780195310429. Published by Oxford University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
