Improving access to specialist multidisciplinary palliative care consultation for rural cancer patients by videoconferencing: Report of a pilot project

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1201-1207

  Watanabe, Sharon M ^a,b   Fairchild, Alysa ^a   Pituskin, Edith ^a   Borgersen, Patricia ^a   Hanson, John ^a   Fassbender, Konrad ^b  

^a CROSS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Palliative care; Remote; Rural; Supportive care; Telehealth; Teleoncology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSTIPATION; COST CONTROL; DYSPNEA; EDMONTON SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT SCALE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NAUSEA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TELEHEALTH; VIDEOCONFERENCING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; CAREGIVERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REMOTE CONSULTATION; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TELEMEDICINE; VIDEOCONFERENCING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879797452     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: 14337339     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00520-012-1649-7     Document Type: Article

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