Rural Palliative Care Telemedicine for Advanced Cancer Patients: A Systematic Review

Autores organización

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  Miguel Antonio Sanchez Cardenas

  Autor

• Angela Maria Cañon Piñeros

  Autor

Autores

• Iriarte-Aristizábal MF
• León-Delgado MX
• Rodríguez-Campos LF
• Correa-Morales JE
• Parra SL

Grupos de investigación

• Cuidado de la Salud y Calidad de Vida

  

  Investigador

  Miguel Antonio Sanchez Cardenas

• Diseño, Imagen y Comunicación

  

  Investigador

  Sandra Melissa Ballesteros Mejia

Resumen

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. © The Author(s) 2022.

Keywords

• Caregivers; Humans; Neoplasms; Palliative Care; Quality of Life; Telemedicine; caregiver; human; neoplasm; palliative therapy; procedures; quality of life; telemedicine