Improving care for the end of life: a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians

Ch. 1. Introduction: continuous quality improvement for better end-of-life care

Ch. 2. How to make improvement happen

Ch. 3. Preventing, assessing, and treating pain

Ch. 4. Managing dyspnea and ventilator withdrawal

Ch. 5. Beyond the living will: advance care planning for all stages of health and disease

Ch. 6. Relationships, spirituality, and bereavement: supporting people in difficult times

Ch. 7. Continuity of care: improving patient confidence in the health care system

Ch. 8. Hospital-based palliative care consults and units

Ch. 9. Medicare reimbursement

Ch. 10. Beyond number crunching: ways to use information systems in quality improvement

Ch. 11. Caring for caregivers: helping staff to provide good care

Ch. 12. Using law and policy to improve end-of-life care

Ch. 13. Alzheimer's and other dementias: opportunities to honor life

Ch. 14. Opportunities to improve care for cancer patients

Ch. 15. Depression and delirium

Ch. 16. Offering end-of-life services to patients with advanced heart or lung failure

Ch. 17. Conclusion: getting started.