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a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
Pt. 1. Overview -- Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care -- How to make improvement happen -- Pt. 2. 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: supporting people in difficult times -- Continuity of care: improving patient confidence in the health care system -- Pt. 3. Arrangements to promote reform -- Hospital-based palliative care consults and units -- Medicare reimbursement -- Beyond number crunching: ways to use information systems in quality improvement -- Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care -- Using law and policy to improve end-of-life care -- Pt. 4. Opportunities in specific diseases -- Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life -- Opportunities 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 -- Instruments to measure quality -- Standards of palliative care -- Instruments to assess pain and physical symptoms -- Pain assessment tool -- Instruments to assess survival time and aggressiveness of care -- Aggressiveness of care plan discussion documentation sheet -- Instruments to assess spirituality -- Instruments to assess grief -- Additional instruments to measure quality -- Multidimensional instruments -- HealthPartners comfort assessment -- Parkland Hospital referral flowchart and intake form -- End-of-life chart review -- After-death family interview -- Resources -- Five Wishes -- Elements of care checklist -- Precepts of palliative care -- Hospice interdisciplinary clinical competencies.
Joanne Lynn, Janice Lynch Schuster, Andrea Kabcenell ; the Center to Improve Care of the Dying ; the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ; foreword by Donald M. Berwick.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-359) and index.