Dedicated to more humane care, this invaluable volume is a compilation of cutting-edge strategies for making improvements in the quality of care for patients and their families through life's final transition. Its purpose is to improve quality of care through the dissemination, cross-cultural analysis, and critical examination of innovative practices. It features in-depth descriptions of how health care professionals have redesigned systems of care to better support dying patients, as well as analytic essays and international commentary from leaders in the growing worldwide palliative care movement.
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All over the world, people are developing better ways to care for the dying and their families. Gathering and sharing the best ideas of health care leaders around the globe - from doctors and nurses to social workers and hospice professionals - is the mission of an important new book, Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives. Innovations in End-of-Life Care is at once a handbook, a consciousness raiser, and an inspirational guide. It is also a reference book of resources and tools, with protocols and bibliographies to help you, your health care institution, and your community improve care for those in the advanced stages of illness.
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In 1998, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, New Jersey, funded the launch by Education Development Center, Inc. of a new online journal (www.edc.org/lastacts). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cancer pain algorithm, advance directive record, advance care planning, cancer disclosure, patients with advanced dementia, cancer pain management, dementia care, cancer pain relief, pain therapy, spouse suffering, palliative care, advance directives, written advance directive, palliative medicine, authorized staff, people with dementia, cancer diagnoses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Perspectives, New York, Respecting Your Choices, World Health Organization, Education Development Center, American Pain Society, Cancer Pain Algorithm, Mary Ann Liebert, Navah Harlow, Approaching Death, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Cancer Center, Oxford University Press, Palliative Med, Ann Arbor, Beth Israel Medical Center, Clin Oncol, Decisions Task Force, Ladislav Volicer, Lutheran Hospital-La Crosse, Spanish Death, Stuart Du Pen, Ann Hurley, Anna Du Pen New!
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In 1998, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, based in Princeton, New Jersey, funded the launch by Education Development Center, Inc. of a new online journal (www.edc.org/lastacts). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cancer pain algorithm, advance directive record, advance care planning, cancer disclosure, patients with advanced dementia, cancer pain management, dementia care, cancer pain relief, pain therapy, spouse suffering, palliative care, advance directives, written advance directive, palliative medicine, authorized staff, people with dementia, cancer diagnoses Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
International Perspectives, New York, Respecting Your Choices, World Health Organization, Education Development Center, American Pain Society, Cancer Pain Algorithm, Mary Ann Liebert, Navah Harlow, Approaching Death, Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press, Cancer Center, Oxford University Press, Palliative Med, Ann Arbor, Beth Israel Medical Center, Clin Oncol, Decisions Task Force, Ladislav Volicer, Lutheran Hospital-La Crosse, Spanish Death, Stuart Du Pen, Ann Hurley, Anna Du Pen New!
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- Palliative Medicine: A Case-based Manual by Neil MacDonald on page 60, page 109, and page 137
- Management of Cancer Pain by US Dept. of Health and Human Services on page 109, page 125, and page 136
- Hospice Care for Patients with Advanced Progressive Dementia (Springer Series on Ethics, Law and Aging) by Ladislav Volicer MD PhD in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine by Derek Doyle on page 60, and page 137
- Dying Well by Ira Byock MD on page 8, and Back Matter
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- Innovations In End-of-Life Care--Vol. 2 by Anna L. Romer on 4 pages
- Innovations in End-of-Life Care Volume 3 by Anna L Romer in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
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