Compassionate Technology: Palliative Care Telemedicine in the Rural Hospital Setting (QI741)

Systematic Review of Palliative Care in the Rural Setting.

BACKGROUND Many of the world's population live in rural areas. However, access and dissemination of the advances taking place in the field of palliative care to patients living in rural areas have been limited. METHODS We searched 2 large databases of the medical literature and found 248 relevant articles; we also identified another 59 articles through networking and a hand search of referenc...

Enabling compassionate care in acute hospital settings

Home telemedicine for paediatric palliative care.

Children with life limiting conditions require intensive, complex management of the physical, psychosocial and spiritual issues that evolve for the child and their family as the focus of care moves from curative treatment to palliation. Optimal palliative care for children can be limited by the lack of health professionals with the necessary skills and experience to confidently and competently ...

Leading Imaging Technology Compassionate Patient Care

Today, CT has assumed the diagnostic role as the primary urologic imaging modality. The diagnostic value of urological CT is threefold. First, unenhanced CT has essentially replaced the IVP as the imaging test of choice for patients with symptoms of acute renal colic. Second, CT has proven to be a superior test for detecting and characterizing renal parenchymal masses and third, CT urography ha...

Update in hospital palliative care.

BACKGROUND Seriously ill patients frequently receive care in hospitals, and palliative care is a core competency for hospitalists. We aimed to summarize and critique recent research that has the potential to impact the clinical practice of palliative care in the hospital. METHODS We reviewed articles published between January 2012 and May 2013, identified through a hand-search of leading jour...