
Joanne Lynn
Author of Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
About the Author
Joanne Lynn is Director of The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies, Senior Scientist at the RAND corporation, and President of Americans for Better Care of the Dying.
Works by Joanne Lynn
Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians (2000) 21 copies
By No Extraordinary Means, Expanded Edition: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water (Medical Ethics) (1986) 17 copies
Sick to death and not going to take it anymore! : reforming health care for the last years of life (2004) 13 copies
Living Well at the End of Life: Adapting Health Care to Serious Chronic Illness in Old Age (2003) 1 copy
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A useful resource to assist you with deciding what you want done when you're seriously ill, hopefully before you need to make the choice. 4/10/22
Written by the leading quality improvement experts and clinicians, The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care provides a quick and easy 'how-to' introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work and includes dozens of ideas for change that most groups can put into practice - now! In today's healthcare settings, too many patients and families suffer needlessly for dozens of show more reasons. Healthcare teams can and must take charge of reform. With equal measures of proven, practical advice and encouragement, The Common Sense Guide enables them to do just that in a wide array of settings.
Written by the leading quality improvement experts and clinicians, The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care provides a quick and easy "how-to" introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work and includes dozens of ideas for change that most groups can put into practice - now! In today's healthcare settings, too many patients and families suffer needlessly for dozens of reasons. Healthcare teams can and must take charge of reform. With equal measures of proven, practical advice and encouragement, The Common Sense Guide enables them to do just that in a wide array of settings.
Review: Everyone who works in palliative care needs to read this gem of a guide to achieving measurable quality improvements in palliative care. ... This is a very practical, how-to-do-it book that is packed with useful information and written with an energy that is infectious. Highly recommended. Roger Woodruff, show less
Written by the leading quality improvement experts and clinicians, The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care provides a quick and easy "how-to" introduction to quality improvement in palliative care. Each chapter features a case study that illustrates how successful quality improvement teams work and includes dozens of ideas for change that most groups can put into practice - now! In today's healthcare settings, too many patients and families suffer needlessly for dozens of reasons. Healthcare teams can and must take charge of reform. With equal measures of proven, practical advice and encouragement, The Common Sense Guide enables them to do just that in a wide array of settings.
Review: Everyone who works in palliative care needs to read this gem of a guide to achieving measurable quality improvements in palliative care. ... This is a very practical, how-to-do-it book that is packed with useful information and written with an energy that is infectious. Highly recommended. Roger Woodruff, show less
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