Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies & International Perspectives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913113875 ISBN 13: 9780913113875

Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert, 2000

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Publisher

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.

Review

"...gives us all a unique opportunity to communicate internationally on medical, psychological, sociological ethical dilemmas in end-of-life care." -- Stein Kaasa, MD, PhD President, European Association for Palliative Care

"I heartily recommend it." -- Stein Kaasa, MD, PhD

"Innovations is a unique and creative medical publication that closely reflects the excitement, diversity, and complexity of palliative care." -- Diane Meier, MD Director, Hertzberg Palliative Care InstituteCo-Director, Center to Advance Palliative CareMount Sinai Hospital, New York

"Innovations tells the stories of substantial improvements in care and helps readers to understand how to replicate the gains." -- Joanne Lynn, MD

Edition details

• Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0913113875
• ISBN 13: 9780913113875
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Heller Karen S.