Improving Care for the End of Life
A sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 September 2007
- ISBN 9780195310429
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 160x236x25 mm
- Weight 771 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 69 line illustrations 0
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Short description:
Improving Care for the End of Life provides expert guidance on how to make significant improvements 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. The ideas are proven, and the stories of teams that have put them to use will inspire and enlighten. In this new edition new material has been added on continuity of care and the special needs of dementia patients and their loved ones and have updated the book throughout.
MoreLong description:
Health care professionals seeking to improve the quality of life for those living with serious illness and nearing the end of life will find exactly what their organization needs in the second edition of this acclaimed book by Dr. Joanne Lynn and her colleagues. 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. The ideas are proven, and the stories of teams that have put them to use will inspire and enlighten.
New to the second edition:
BL New chapters to address issues of growing interest such as continuity of care, and the special needs of dementia patients and their loved ones
BL Details on trajectories of care and how these affect decisions at the end of life
BL Updated and expanded information on pain management, advance care planning, ventilator withdrawal, depression and delirium, advanced heart and lung disease, and more
BL Scores of new insights, measurement approaches, and tips based on the experiences of hundreds of improvement teams nationwide
BL Thoroughly updated references
The sourcebook speaks to all managers of health care systems serving people with serious illnesses, including doctors in offices, nurse managers on hospital units, social workers in long-term care facilities, administrators of home care and hospice agencies, hospital chaplains, directors of volunteer services, and others.
If you are responsible for clinical care in a palliative care organization or ward, you don't need to read this review. Just buy the book and get started! As with the first edition, this book is immensely practical. It has an infectious energy that leaves you wanting to get out and do something - by next Tuesday! This book belongs on the library shelf in every palliative care organization, but I doubt it will gather much dust!
Table of Contents:
Part One: Overview
Introduction: Continuous Quality Improvement for Better End-of-Life Care
How to Make Improvement Happen
Part Two: Improved Patient Care Through Improved Practice and Systems
Preventing, Assessing and Treating Pain
Managing Dyspnea and Ventilator Withdrawal
Beyond the Living Will: Advance Care Planning for All Stages of Health and Disease
Relationships, Spirituality and Bereavement: Support for Difficult Times
Preventing and Healing Pressure Ulcers
Continuity of Care: Ways to Improve Patient Confidence in the Health Care System
Part Three: Arrangements to Promote Reform
Hospital-Based "Palliative Care" Consults and Units
Beyond Number Crunching: Ways to Use Information Systems in Quality Improvement
Caring for Caregivers: Helping Staff to Provide Good Care
Law, Policy, and Finance
Part Four: Opportunities in Specific Diseases
Alzheimer's and Other Dementias: Opportunities to Honor Life
Opportunites to Improve Care for Cancer Patients
Depression and Delirium
Offering End-of-Life Services to Patients with Advanced Heart or Lung Failure
Conclusion:Getting Started
Appendix: Instruments
Resources
Glossary
References
Index
