Putting patients first: an inventive service delivering cancer treatment at home

Service Discovery At Home

Service discovery is a fairly new field that kicked off since the advent of ubiquitous computing and has been found essential in the making of intelligent networks by implementing automated discovery and remote control between devices. This paper provides an overview and comparison of several prominent service discovery mechanisms currently available. It also introduces the At Home Anywhere Ser...

'Putting patients first': a philosophy in practice.

Late referrals to home palliative care service affecting death at home in advanced cancer patients in Japan: a nationwide survey.

BACKGROUND To identify factors influencing place of death among home palliative care patients with advanced cancer, focusing on the timing of referrals from hospital to home care settings. METHODS A cross-sectional nationwide questionnaire survey was conducted on home palliative care patients at 1000 randomly selected home care agencies in Japan. A total of 568 responses were analyzed (effect...

Delivering chemotherapy with a nurse-led cancer outreach service.

This article outlines an initiative to deliver outreach chemotherapy closer to patients' homes. Five nurse-led units were set up in the community. Cancer treatments can now be provided outside the acute hospital setting. This nurse-led service has improved and developed the delivery of chemotherapy by looking at alternative and innovative ways of addressing service delivery.

Putting Patients at the Center of Care.