Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care
About Innovations
About Innovations Online:
The archived online journal is still free and accessible to all; our target audience is clinicians and health care professionals, though many articles will also be of interest to policy makers and the public. Whereas many journals focus on results of research studies with little attention to the mechanisms responsible for those outcomes, Innovations has sought to provide clinicians and researchers the opportunity to detail the process of designing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining new practices to improve palliative care. Each issue is theme-based and includes a Featured Innovation, which spotlights a promising practice in end-of-life care. Every issue also includes an Editorial and International Perspectives, in which authors from around the world explore cultural and national assumptions about how best to address the featured topic. The Read More and Resources & Tools pages offer readers targeted references and relevant websites, as well as original tools designed by our featured innovators. Some issues include a Personal Reflections department, where we publish essays about the personal impact of a particular issue on patients, families, volunteers, or health care professionals. About Innovations in Print: Innovations in End-of-Life Care has had a standing section in the Journal of Palliative Medicine (JPM) the official journal of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). Innovations will continue to be published in JPM through April 2004. Journal of Palliative Medicine is an interdisciplinary journal that deals with patient care at the end of life. It covers the latest developments in drug and non-drug therapies for symptoms and syndromes that affect patients with life-threatening diseases, highlights palliative care programs worldwide, explores palliative care education, and reports on the latest developments in pain and symptom management. You may subscribe or access information on how to submit a manuscript online at www.liebertpub.com/jpm or by mail at: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. About the Books
Published by Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., Innovations is proud to announce the series, Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies and International Perspectives. Dedicated to more humane care, this invaluable series 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 analytical essays and international commentary from leaders in the growing worldwide palliative care movement. Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Practical Strategies and International Perspectives are reference books of resources and tools, as well as handbooks, and inspirational guides. Volume Three explores six themes: Continuity of Care, Institutionalization of Palliative Care, Support for Family Caregivers, Grief and Bereavement, Improving Pain Management in Long-term Care, and Quality of Life. Volume Two addresses six themes: Integrated Models of Palliative Care, Spirituality, Outcome Measurement, Pediatric Palliative care, Hospice in Prison, and Teen Hospice Volunteers. Volume One focuses on four major themes: Advance Care Planning, Family-Centered Care, Cancer Pain Management, and Advanced Dementia. To order via the mail, contact: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. |
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