BACKGROUND Day-care surgery is a common procedure in most of the hospitals. It has the advantages of early discharge and thus contributes to cost effectiveness. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to compare the feasibility of day-care surgery in rural and urban patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Around 200 cases undergoing day-care surgeries of various types in urban and rural patient were en...

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. the rural hos...

BACKGROUND There are many factors influencing postoperative health-related quality of life of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients, including the degree of the deformity, culture, differences in geography, rural versus urban living environments, and social factors. The objective of this study was to analyze the significance of geographic factors and their differences influencing the postope...

W access to rural generalist physicians remains a problem, an increasing problem is access to rural generalist surgeons. Patients living outside the metropolitan centres must in creasingly travel long distances to receive surgical care. When surgery is elective, this causes substantial financial and emotional costs that at times can cause delay or even forgoing of the procedure. When surgery is...

Australia's rural hospitals face most of the same issues and challenges faced by metropolitan hospitals. However they also face additional challenges around geographic isolation, their iconic status and role as major employers in local communities, and their close relationship with community based health services. Future opportunities include more formal integration with community service throu...

BACKGROUND Earlier studies have successfully demonstrated that medical students can achieve success in core clinical rotations with long term attachments in small groups to rural general / family practices. METHODS In this study, three students from a class of 226 volunteered for this 1-year pilot program, conducted by the University of Queensland in 2004, for medical students in the 3rd year...

CONTEXT Cancer care requires specialty surgical and medical resources that are less likely to be found in rural areas. PURPOSE To examine the travel patterns and distances of rural and urban colorectal cancer (CRC) patients to 3 types of specialty cancer care services--surgery, medical oncology consultation, and radiation oncology consultation. METHODS Descriptive cross-sectional study usin...

The rural surgery rotation that is contained within the general surgery residency program at The University of Tennessee College of Medicine-Chattanooga is described in this article. The advantages of this experience, including the extensive endoscopy experience and the close exposure to practicing general surgeons, are also outlined. The rotation receives uniformly positive evaluations from re...