In order to facilitate knowledge transfer between specialists and generalists and between experts and novices, and to promote interdisciplinary communication, there is a need to provide methods and tools for doing so. This interdisciplinary research team developed and evaluated a decision support tool (DST) on a personal digital assistant (PDA) for cardiac tele-triage/tele-consultation when the...

Two n e w modes of real-t ime collision avoidance are presented wh.ich aid in the e.ffectiveness of remote tele-operation. S t i cky coll ision mode improves s y s t e m safety by disallowing contact wi th modelled obstacles. Slippery mode is used t o improve the eff iciency of -the process by reducing t h e required level of operator skill. B o t h modes execute an real-t ime and have been amp...

Background: Early identification of exacerbations reduces hospital admissions and may slow disease progression. The TELESCOT randomised control trial based in Lothian, Scotland, is investigating the impact of a tele-monitoring service for COPD with the primary aim of reducing hospitalisation. Aim: The nested qualitative study explored the views of patients and professionals on models of telemet...

Telemedicine for the intensive care unit (Tele-ICU) was founded as a means of delivering the clinical expertise of intensivists located remotely to hospitals with inadequate access to intensive care specialists. This was a retrospective pre- and postintervention study of adult patients admitted to a community hospital ICU. The patients in the preintervention period (n = 630) and during the Tele...

Introduction: Surveys in the UK have established a wide variability in clinical librarian (CL) service models and previous systematic reviews have suggested that there is little evidence of effectiveness or limited evidence of impact. The evidence that exists is mainly descriptive and comprises poor quality studies. To improve the evidence base and demonstrate the value of clinical librarian se...

Information technology is revolutionizing interpersonal relations. This new context has made possible the pursuit of professions in the health area, a concept known as telehealth. The essence of this area is the provision of health information at distance. In this context, orthodontics as a specialty cannot remain oblivious to advances.This article, through a non-systematic literature review, s...

This critical litera ture review on boredom arose out of a pilot clinical librarian/informationist project in Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys (TEWV) NHS Foundation Trust. At the time of writing, the lead author (R.S.) was clinical librarian/informationist for four pilot teams in the trust. One of these teams includes a consultant psychiatrist (P.H.), a modern matron (D.S.) and an occupational therap...