Ensuring Opioid Availability: Methods and Resources

Ensuring opioid availability: methods and resources.

The pain and palliative care fields are encouraged to learn about government drug control policy and to engage with their governments to examine these policies and their implementation in order to address impediments to patient access to pain management. Although pain management is a necessary part of palliative care, it is often impossible because strict national and state regulations block ac...

Wireless Network Virtualization: Ensuring Carrier Grade Availability

Ensuring High Availability of Distributed Multimedia Applications

Multimediaapplicationsare characterized by QoS (quality of service) requirements which depend on the quality of video and audio transmitted to the client, and the respect of time constraints associated to video and audio data. Much work has been done in order to provide system support that meets these requirements. However, existing proposals do not integrate the consequence of failure occurren...

India: opioid availability. An update.

In India, a million people with cancer and an unknown number of people with other incurable and disabling diseases, need opioids for pain relief. Only about 0.4% of the population in need have access to them. Major barriers to access to opioids are complicated regulations and problems related to attitude and knowledge regarding pain relief and opioids among professionals and the public. The Pai...

Ensuring Quality in Online Palliative Care Resources

Evidence and information is an integral part of the processes enabling clinical and service delivery within health. It is used by health professionals in clinical practice and in developing their professional knowledge, by policy makers in decision making, and is sought by health consumers to help them manage their health needs and assess their options. Increasingly, this evidence and informati...