Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians
- Ernlé W. D. Young, PhD, Reviewer
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Stanford University (Emeritus)
eyoung@stanford.edu
Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text.
By Joanne Lynn, Janice Schuster, Anne Wilkinson, and Lin Noyes Simon.
2nd ed, 464 pp, $49.95.
New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2007.
ISBN-13 978-0-1953-1042-9.
As the authors claim in their preface, “this sourcebook features . . . strategies to improve care, with a focus on those that any manager of any healthcare system can try almost immediately” (p xi). This is not a vain promise but one inherently kept in the pages that follow:
Part I . . . suggests quality improvement methods that every organization can use right now; Part II focuses on changes that
patients and families often demand or would benefit from; Part III describes environments that encourage better practice [such
as taking heed of caregivers and having in-house palliative care services or units from which consultations can readily be
obtained]; and Part IV discusses opportunities for change in caring for patients with specific diseases. (p xii)
Health care professionals are encouraged to be …
