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Author : Daniel R. Tobin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Program written by Daniel R. Tobin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce P. Himelstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Pediatric Advanced Illness Coordinated Care Program written by Bruce P. Himelstein and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kaveh G. Shojania
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781587632594
Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (325 download)
Download or read book Closing the Quality Gap written by Kaveh G. Shojania and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Empowering Patients and Honoring Individuals' Choices written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309466148
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles into Care for People with Serious Illness written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and others who work together with the patient's other doctors to provide an extra layer of support. Such care is appropriate for people at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and can be provided together with curative treatment to address clinical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual concerns of the patient and their family. To better understand how the principles of palliative care can be integrated into the overall provision of care and services to those facing serious illness, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness held a public workshop in April 2017. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309482100
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Implementing Quality Measures for Accountability in Community-Based Care for People with Serious Illness written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Americans of all ages face the challenge of living with serious illnesses such as advanced cancer, heart, or lung disease. Many people with serious illness are increasingly cared for in community settings. While the number of community-based programs to provide care for those with serious illness has grown significantly, the quality of care provided is not consistent across geographic locations or care settings. Care for the serious illness population often features gaps in coordination across sites of care and poor patient and family perceptions as to the quality of care provided. In an effort to better understand and facilitate discussions about the challenges and opportunities related to identifying and implementing quality measures for accountability purposes in community-based serious illness care, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop on April 17, 2018, in Washington, DC. Workshop participants explored the current state of quality measurement for people with serious illness, their families, and caregivers, with the aim of identifying next steps toward effectively implementing measures to drive improvement in the quality of community-based care for those facing serious illness. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309303133
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Dying in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
Author : Amy S. Kelley
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1493904078
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness written by Amy S. Kelley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions. The United States is currently facing a crisis in health care marked by unsustainable spending and quality that is poor relative to international benchmarks. Yet this is also a critical time of opportunity. Because of its focus on quality of care, the Affordable Care Act is poised to expand access to palliative care services for the sickest, most vulnerable, and therefore most costly, 5% of patients- a small group who nonetheless drive about 50% of all healthcare spending. Palliative care is specialized medical care for people with serious illnesses. It focuses on providing patients with relief from the symptoms, pain, and stress of a serious illness—whatever the diagnosis or stage of illness. The goal is to improve quality of life for both the patient and the family. Research has demonstrated palliative care’s positive impact on health care value. Patients (and family caregivers) receiving palliative care experience improved quality of life, better symptom management, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and improved survival. Because patient and family needs are met, crises are prevented, thereby directly reducing need for emergency department and hospital use and their associated costs. An epiphenomenon of better quality of care, the lower costs associated with palliative care have been observed in multiple studies. Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform, a roadmap for effective policy and program design, brings together expert clinicians, researchers and policy leaders, who tackle key areas where real-world policy options to improve access to quality palliative care could have a substantial role in improving value.
Author : Cheryl Schraeder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0813811945
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults written by Cheryl Schraeder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breakthroughs in medical science and technology, combined with shifts in lifestyle and demographics, have resulted in a rapid rise in the number of individuals living with one or more chronic illnesses. Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults presents thorough demographics on this growing sector, describes models for change, reviews current literature and examines various outcomes. Comprehensive Care Coordination for Chronically Ill Adults is divided into two parts. The first provides thorough discussion and background on theoretical concepts of care, including a complete profile of current demographics and chapters on current models of care, intervention components, evaluation methods, health information technology, financing, and educating an interdisciplinary team. The second part of the book uses multiple case studies from various settings to illustrate successful comprehensive care coordination in practice. Nurse, physician and social work leaders in community health, primary care, education and research, and health policy makers will find this book essential among resources to improve care for the chronically ill.
Author : Kimberly Pender McClive
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Effects of an Advanced Illness Care Coordination Program on Patient Satisfaction with Health Care Through Improved Patient-provider Communication written by Kimberly Pender McClive and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : JEAN. HASELTINE GALIANA (WILLIAM.)
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811321647
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)
Download or read book Aging Well written by JEAN. HASELTINE GALIANA (WILLIAM.) and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This open access book outlines the challenges of supporting the health and wellbeing of older adults around the world and offers examples of solutions designed by stakeholders, healthcare providers, and public, private and nonprofit organizations in the United States. The solutions presented address challenges including: providing person-centered long-term care, making palliative care accessible in all healthcare settings and the home, enabling aging-in-place, financing long-term care, improving care coordination and access to care, delivering hospital-level and emergency care in the home and retirement community settings, merging health and social care, supporting people living with dementia and their caregivers, creating communities and employment opportunities that are accessible and welcoming to those of all ages and abilities, and combating the stigma of aging. The innovative programs of support and care in Aging Well serve as models of excellence that, when put into action, move health spending toward a sustainable path and greatly contribute to the well-being of older adults."--Provided by publisher.
Author : U. S. Department of Health and Human Services
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781483935119
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (351 download)
Download or read book 8. Improving Health Care and Palliative Care for Advanced and Serious Illness written by U. S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensive evidence supports the effectiveness of clinical interventions for improving patient centered outcomes for patients with advanced and serious illness. For example, many types of medications and other interventions to treat pain, can lead to significant reductions in pain severity and pain-related outcomes such as quality of life. However, studies in different areas have found that these are often not well integrated into medical practice. For pain, despite widely accepted pain screening and clinical practice guidelines, pain continues to be undertreated, particularly for vulnerable populations such as nursing home patients. For communication and decisionmaking, in a study of audiotaped initial oncology consultations for patients with terminal cancer, fewer than half of oncologists offered alternatives to chemotherapy as an option. In addition, only 58% of patients were informed of their life expectancy and only 60% were aware of uncertainty about the benefits of chemotherapy. And despite wide availability and insurance coverage of hospice care, in 2009, only 42% of patients who died in the U.S. received any hospice care, and, of those, only half received more than three weeks of care. This report is part of a larger review of interventions aimed at reducing the quality gap. Given the critical importance of interventions to improve health care and palliative care in this population, we focused on these types of interventions in this report. These interventions can include changes in the way care is provided within a system, such as palliative care consultation services, and interventions to change how patients/families interact with the health care system, such as a patient self-management program for pain that is integrated with patients' health care. They can also include quality improvement interventions, which can be defined as any type of intervention to improve care with some element of system change, including change in how patients/families interact with the health care system, and can be delivered through a variety of quality improvement methods, such as continuous quality improvement. The common purpose of these types of interventions is to improve care and self-management to maximize the quality of life of people facing advanced and serious illnesses and the end of life and of their families. This includes relief from physical and psychosocial symptoms; psychosocial and spiritual support for both the patient and their families and other caregivers; excellent communication about topics such as prognosis; person-centered care, with compassion, personalization, and cultural sensitivity; care planning and prevention of crises; and opportunities for comfortable dying, life closure, and control of the circumstances of death. We address the needs of patients with advanced and serious illnesses through the three interrelated areas of palliative care, end-of-life care, and hospice care. Palliative care is defined as medical care focused on improving the quality of life of people facing serious or life-threatening illness, including the end of life. Emphasis is placed on pain and symptom management, communication, and coordinated care. End-of-life care is defined as care delivered to dying patients, and is a small subset of palliative care. Hospice is also a subset of palliative care and is defined as a care delivery system and insurance benefit for patients in the last months of life who have chosen quality of life as the primary goal of care, and which is provided, in the U.S., wherever the patient resides. In the U.S., these include the home, special inpatient units, and nursing homes. We focused on several specific targets that are critical to improving care in this population: continuity, coordination of care, and transitions; pain; distress; and communication and decisionmaking.
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309074029
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Improving Palliative Care for Cancer written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-10-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our society's aggressive pursuit of cures for cancer, we have neglected symptom control and comfort care. Less than one percent of the National Cancer Institute's budget is spent on any aspect of palliative care research or education, despite the half million people who die of cancer each year and the larger number living with cancer and its symptoms. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer examines the barriersâ€"scientific, policy, and socialâ€"that keep those in need from getting good palliative care. It goes on to recommend public- and private-sector actions that would lead to the development of more effective palliative interventions; better information about currently used interventions; and greater knowledge about, and access to, palliative care for all those with cancer who would benefit from it.
Author : Jenny Penson
Publisher : Singular Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781565935983
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Palliative Care for People With Cancer written by Jenny Penson and published by Singular Publishing Group. This book was released on 1995 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palliative Care for People with Cancer describes the kind of care needed towards the end of life or at any point on what has been called "the cancer journey," Its focus is on the highest quality of life for the person with cancer and it includes care of the family before, at and after thedeath. The third edition is a comprehensive guide for nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary team who work with people with cancer and their families. Key Features: * Fully revised, restructured and updated * New chapters on disease modifying treatments, breathlessness, palliative nursing, reflective practice and palliative care on the internet * Addresses the key areas of symptom management, meeting needs and palliative nursing
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309133440
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In January 2004, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) hosted the 1st Annual Crossing the Quality Chasm Summit, convening a group of national and community health care leaders to pool their knowledge and resources with regard to strategies for improving patient care for five common chronic illnesses. This summit was a direct outgrowth and continuation of the recommendations put forth in the 2001 IOM report Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century. The summit's purpose was to offer specific guidance at both the community and national levels for overcoming the challenges to the provision of high-quality care articulated in the Quality Chasm report and for moving closer to achievement of the patient-centerd health care system envisioned therein.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030946031X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Integrating the Patient and Caregiver Voice into Serious Illness Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of peopleâ€"infants, children, adults, and their familiesâ€"are currently coping with serious illness in the United States. Efforts are intensifying to improve overall care quality through the delivery of person-centered and family-oriented services, for patients of all ages and across disease stages, care settings, and specialties. While aging Baby Boomers are increasing the proportion of patients in the Medicare population over time, the sickest and most vulnerable patients needing health system support and other services to meet their complex needs can be found across the age spectrum and in a broad range of care settings, from perinatal care to geriatric care. Recognizing the need to thoughtfully consider and address the challenges and opportunities in efforts to improve care quality and value, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held the public workshop Integrating the Patient and Caregiver Voice into Serious Illness Care, on December 15, 2016, in Washington, DC. This workshop was the first in a series planned by the roundtable, and was designed specifically to bring together diverse personal perspectives and experiences about priorities and values that are important to patients and families coping with serious illness, and to consider solutions that support integration of these priorities and values in practice. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Author : Committee on Care at the End of Life
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309518253
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Approaching Death written by Committee on Care at the End of Life and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the end of life makes its inevitable appearance, people should be able to expect reliable, humane, and effective caregiving. Yet too many dying people suffer unnecessarily. While an "overtreated" dying is feared, untreated pain or emotional abandonment are equally frightening. Approaching Death reflects a wide-ranging effort to understand what we know about care at the end of life, what we have yet to learn, and what we know but do not adequately apply. It seeks to build understanding of what constitutes good care for the dying and offers recommendations to decisionmakers that address specific barriers to achieving good care. This volume offers a profile of when, where, and how Americans die. It examines the dimensions of caring at the end of life: Determining diagnosis and prognosis and communicating these to patient and family. Establishing clinical and personal goals. Matching physical, psychological, spiritual, and practical care strategies to the patient's values and circumstances. Approaching Death considers the dying experience in hospitals, nursing homes, and other settings and the role of interdisciplinary teams and managed care. It offers perspectives on quality measurement and improvement, the role of practice guidelines, cost concerns, and legal issues such as assisted suicide. The book proposes how health professionals can become better prepared to care well for those who are dying and to understand that these are not patients for whom "nothing can be done."
