The Australian journal of rural health
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Aust J Rural Health · Feb 2015
Comparative StudyWho provides care for people dying of cancer? A comparison of a rural and metropolitan cohort in a South Australian bereaved population study.
To examine and compare urban and rural palliative care service availability and patterns of care from randomised, population-based surveys of caregivers of people at the end of life. ⋯ Use of palliative care services was similar for rural and urban caregivers for someone close at the end of life with similar levels of met and unmet needs.
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Disparities in outcomes are experienced between people who live in rural and remote areas and those who live in larger cities. This paper explores the ability to deliver specialist cancer care through the use of telehealth models. ⋯ New models of telehealth are another avenue to help further decrease the disparity of access and survival outcomes between rural and urban patients. Implementation of these models requires health system wide approach for development key performance indicators and allocation of resources.
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Aust J Rural Health · Feb 2015
Survival from breast, colon, lung, ovarian and rectal cancer by geographical remoteness in New South Wales, Australia, 2000-2008.
This study aims to compare survival from breast, colon, lung, ovarian and rectal cancer by geographical remoteness in New South Wales (NSW). ⋯ Reasons that contribute to the differences observed and the disparate results between cancer types need to be further explored in order to facilitate targeted solutions in reducing survival inequality between NSW regions.