| Title |
The Role of Telemedicine in Providing Thoracic Oncology Care to Remote Areas of British Columbia
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Current Oncology Reports, June 2017
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11912-017-0612-7 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Michael F. Humer, Barbara G. Campling |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to review the role of telemedicine in providing oncology care; we describe our long-standing, high-volume telemedicine experience. The Interior Health Thoracic Surgical Group (IHTSG) uses telemedicine, through Virtual Thoracic Surgical Clinics (VTSC), to provide service to remote patients. The IHTSG serves a population of 1.01 million people over an area of 807,538 km(2) (1.3 persons/km(2)) in the Interior and North of British Columbia, Canada. Between 2003 and 2015, the IHTSG conducted 15,073 telemedicine patient encounters at 63 geographic sites. Telemedicine saved these patients a total travel distance of 11.5 million km-an average of 766 km per patient. VTSC supports and strengthens the Hub and Spoke model of healthcare delivery-patients residing remotely can easily access centrally delivered service. Telemedicine makes specialized care available to all patients by overcoming a major impediment to access, namely distance. |
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| United States | 1 | 50% |
| Unknown | 1 | 50% |
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| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
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| Unknown | 66 | 100% |
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| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 12% |
| Researcher | 6 | 9% |
| Librarian | 5 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 12% |
| Unknown | 22 | 33% |
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| Medicine and Dentistry | 19 | 29% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 4 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Psychology | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 9 | 14% |
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