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• Title:Improving care for the end of life : a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians / Joanne Lynn [and others] ; foreword by Don Berwick.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
  Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2008.
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WY152 .I335 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WY152 .I335 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Terminal care.
  Palliative treatment.
  Death.
  
• Medical Subjects: Terminal Care--organization & administration.
  Palliative Care--organization & administration.
  Patient-Centered Care--organization & administration.
  
• Edition:2nd ed.
  
• Description:xvi, 447 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195310429 (Cloth)
  019531042X (Cloth)
  
• Contents: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
  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
  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
  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.