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 todays healthcare settings, too many patients and families sufferneedlessly 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.
An Orientation; Basics of Quality Improvement; Advance Care Planning; Preventing, Assessing, and Treating Pain; Assuring Comfort; Caring for Caregivers; Continuity and Transfers; Chronic Care: Heart and Lung Failure; Nursing Home Quality: Pressure Ulcers; Improving Care for People with Advanced Dementia and Their Families; Improving Intensive Care Units; Building a Palliative Care Program; Hospice Program Quality; End-of-Life Care, Spiritual Support, and Bereavement; Beyond Quality Improvement: Policy Improvement;
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