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• Title:The common sense guide to improving palliative care / Joanne Lynn [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
  
• Published/Created:New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY swing space (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: WB310 .C647 2007
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Palliative treatment.
  Hospice care.
  
• Medical Subjects: Palliative Care--organization & administration--United States.
  Quality Assurance, Health Care--methods--United States.
  Terminal Care--organization & administration--United States.
  
• Description:vi, 264 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195310412 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  0195310411 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  
• Contents:1. orientation
  2. Basics of quality improvement
  3. Advance care planning
  4. Preventing, assessing, and treating pain
  5. Assuring comfort
  6. Caring for caregivers
  7. Continuity and transfers
  8. Chronic care : heart and lung failure
  9. Nursing home quality : pressure ulcers
  10. Improving care for people with advanced dementia and their families
  11. Improving intensive care units
  12. Building a palliative care program
  13. Hospice program quality
  14. End-of-life care, spiritual support, and bereavement
  15. Beyond quality improvement : policy improvement.