The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
Published on 15. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-19-531041-2 (ISBN)
Description
Written by the leading quality improvement experts and clinicians, The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care provides a quick and easy "how-to" introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work and includes dozens of ideas for change that most groups can put into practice - now! In today's healthcare settings, too many patients and families suffer needlessly for dozens of reasons. Healthcare teams can and must take charge of reform. With equal measures of proven, practical advice and encouragement, The Common Sense Guide enables them to do just that in a wide array of settings.
Reviews / Votes
Everyone who works in palliative care needs to read this gem of a guide to achieving measurable quality improvements in palliative care. ... This is a very practical, how-to-do-it book that is packed with useful information and written with an energy that is infectious. Highly recommended. * Roger Woodruff, *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
23 line illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-531041-2 (9780195310412)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Joanne M. D. Lynn | Ekta Chaudhry | Lin Noyes Simon
The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
E-Book
02/2007
OUP eBook
€33.99
Available for download
Persons
Ekta Chaudhry, M.B.B.S, MHSA, is a quality improvement specialist who consults with organizations nationwide. She has co-directed various palliative care collaboratives in effort to improve care for patients nearing end of life.
Lin Simon has worked improving care for people with dementia for over twenty years and brings clinical experiences to the book. She has participated in several regional collaboratives and has worked with nurses at the bedside in long term care to improve care of older adults.
Anne M. Wilkinson, M.S., Ph.D., Dr. Wilkinson is a Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist with the RAND Corporation, a non-profit policy analysis think tank and also Director, The Palliative Care Policy Center, a research and educational center focusing on policy and quality improvement issues related to end of life care. She has served as principal investigator on a number of studies ranging from the evaluation of state nursing facility regulations on dementia care in nursing homes,systematic reviews of the evidence base for evaluating quality end-of-life care, to conducting focus groups of family caregivers CHF and COPD patients to investigate the caregiving experience.
Lin Simon has worked improving care for people with dementia for over twenty years and brings clinical experiences to the book. She has participated in several regional collaboratives and has worked with nurses at the bedside in long term care to improve care of older adults.
Anne M. Wilkinson, M.S., Ph.D., Dr. Wilkinson is a Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist with the RAND Corporation, a non-profit policy analysis think tank and also Director, The Palliative Care Policy Center, a research and educational center focusing on policy and quality improvement issues related to end of life care. She has served as principal investigator on a number of studies ranging from the evaluation of state nursing facility regulations on dementia care in nursing homes,systematic reviews of the evidence base for evaluating quality end-of-life care, to conducting focus groups of family caregivers CHF and COPD patients to investigate the caregiving experience.
Author
Senior Natural ScientistSenior Natural Scientist, The RAND Corporation, USA
Quality Improvement SpecialistQuality Improvement Specialist, India
Quality and Research SpecialistQuality and Research Specialist, USA
Senior Social and Behavioral Scientist; DirectorSenior Social and Behavioral Scientist; Director, The RAND Corporation; The Palliative Care Policy Center, USA
, USA
Content
1. An 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