TY - JOUR
T1 - Rural Palliative Care Telemedicine for Advanced Cancer Patients
T2 - A Systematic Review
AU - Sánchez-Cárdenas, Miguel Antonio
AU - Iriarte-Aristizábal, María Fernanda
AU - León-Delgado, Marta Ximena
AU - Rodríguez-Campos, Luisa Fernanda
AU - Correa-Morales, Juan Esteban
AU - Cañón-Piñeros, Angela
AU - Parra, Sandra Liliana
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2022.
PY - 2023/8
Y1 - 2023/8
N2 - Context: Telemedicine offers the opportunity to provide remote palliative care for patients to control symptoms and improve quality of life, even for patients with advanced diseases. Objectives: Establish a telemedicine model of rural palliative care for advanced cancer patients with difficulties in accessing standard care. Methods: This review comports with the minimum standards described in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) and uses the palliative care literature review iterative method (PALETTE) proposed by Zwakman et al in 2018. Results: Three hundred, ninety-two articles were identified in PubMed and EMBASE databases and alternative search engines such as Google Scholar and OpenGrey. A telemedicine delivery model was developed for patients with limited access to standard care, which consists of identifying the candidate population, establishing the most convenient telemedicine modality, agreeing with patients and caregivers on palliative care needs, and evaluating the interventions effectiveness. Conclusion: Telemedicine is a revolutionary tool to provide palliative care to advanced cancer patients whose clinical condition or location prevent them from accessing conventional care.
AB - Context: Telemedicine offers the opportunity to provide remote palliative care for patients to control symptoms and improve quality of life, even for patients with advanced diseases. Objectives: Establish a telemedicine model of rural palliative care for advanced cancer patients with difficulties in accessing standard care. Methods: This review comports with the minimum standards described in the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) and uses the palliative care literature review iterative method (PALETTE) proposed by Zwakman et al in 2018. Results: Three hundred, ninety-two articles were identified in PubMed and EMBASE databases and alternative search engines such as Google Scholar and OpenGrey. A telemedicine delivery model was developed for patients with limited access to standard care, which consists of identifying the candidate population, establishing the most convenient telemedicine modality, agreeing with patients and caregivers on palliative care needs, and evaluating the interventions effectiveness. Conclusion: Telemedicine is a revolutionary tool to provide palliative care to advanced cancer patients whose clinical condition or location prevent them from accessing conventional care.
KW - cancer pain
KW - end of life
KW - neoplasms
KW - palliative care
KW - quality of life
KW - rural population
KW - telemedicine
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85141610463
U2 - 10.1177/10499091221130329
DO - 10.1177/10499091221130329
M3 - Review article
C2 - 36331174
AN - SCOPUS:85141610463
SN - 1049-9091
VL - 40
SP - 936
EP - 944
JO - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
JF - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
IS - 8
ER -
