The effect of weekly specialist palliative care teleconsultations in patients with advanced cancer -a randomized clinical trial.

Background: Teleconsultation seems to be a promising intervention for providing palliative care to home-dwelling patients; however, its effect on clinically relevant outcome measures remains largely unexplored. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine whether weekly teleconsultations from a hospital-based specialist palliative care consultation team (SPCT) improved patient-experienced symptom burden compared to "care as usual". Secondary objectives were to determine the effects of these teleconsultations on unmet palliative care needs, continuity of care, hospital admissions, satisfaction with teleconsultations, and the burden experienced by informal caregivers.

Palliative care consultations in primary care: a cross-sectional survey among Dutch general practitioners.

Background: Expert consultation supports general practitioners (GPs) in delivering adequate palliative homecare. Insight into consultation practices from a GP's perspective is needed in order to shape consultation services to their wishes and needs.

Aim: To explore palliative care consultation practices from a GP's perspective.

Increased prevalence of restless legs syndrome in patients with Crohn's disease.

Objective: To determine (a) the incidence of restless legs syndrome (RLS) in patients with Crohn's disease (CD), (b) whether and how the occurrence and severity of RLS is related to severity of CD, and (c) how RLS influences the quality of life of CD patients.

Basic Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional questionnaire study in a random selection of 144 CD patients and 80 controls. Differences were calculated using a χ-test (categorical data), an independent T-test (continuous data, normal distribution), or a Mann-Whitney U-test (continuous data, non-normal distribution).