Rural Victorian Telestroke project

Rural and Urban Poaching in Victorian England

Poaching is commonly portrayed as the archetypal nineteenth-century ‘rural’ crime, particularly associated with agricultural districts of southern and eastern England. This study argues that this interpretation is misleading. Judicial statistics collected from the mid-nineteenth century suggest that poaching was much more widespread in the North and Midlands than has previously been acknowledge...

Issues in Rural Nursing: A Victorian Perspective

REACH: clinical feasibility of a rural telestroke network.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Development of stroke networks is critical to bringing guideline-driven stroke care to rural, underserved areas. METHODS A Web-based telestroke tool, REACH, was developed to provide a foundation for a rural stroke network that delivered acute stroke consults 24 hours per day 7 days per week to 8 rural community hospitals in Georgia. RESULTS There were 194 acute stroke...

Rural-Urban Migration and Socioeconomic Mobility in Victorian Britain

This article analyzes rural-urban migration in Great Britain in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Using a new dataset of 28,000 individuals matched between the 1851 and 1881 population censuses, I examine the selection process and treatment effect of migration, controlling for the endogeneity of the migration decision. I find that urban migrants were positively selected—the best of the...

[Telestroke in eastern Switzerland].

The establishment of stroke networks is an approach to forward guideline driven stroke care to hospitals without full-time neurological service. Tele- stroke networks are evidence based for remote neurological support of acute stroke patients, administration of thrombolysis safely as well as increasing thrombolysis rates. Since 2011 the district hospital in Grabs was linked to the stroke center...