Application and use of herbal medicines by healthcare professionals in long-term care: A scoping review.

Concomitant use of herbal medicine and drugs is usual in older people. Setting-specific information on usage and application by healthcare professionals (HCPs) in long-term care is scarce. This scoping review aimed to identify the use and professional application of herbal medicine by HCPs in older people in long-term care.

Barriers for Adult Patients to Access Palliative Care in Hospitals: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Background: Access to palliative care services is variable, and many inpatients do not receive palliative care. An overview of potential barriers could facilitate the development of strategies to overcome factors that impede access for patients with palliative care needs.

Aim: To review the current evidence on barriers that impair, delay, or prohibit access to palliative care for adult hospital inpatients.

Avatar and virtual agent-assisted telecare for patients in their homes: A scoping review.

Introduction: Telecare can be an effective way to deliver healthcare to patients' homes. Avatar or virtual agent-equipped technologies have the potential to increase user engagement and adherence to telecare. This study aimed to identify telecare interventions assisted by avatars/virtual agents, reflect the concepts of telecare and give an overview on its outcomes.

Evaluation of an intervention to improve the safety of medication therapy via HIT-supported interprofessional cooperation in long-term care - a mixed method study.

Background: In order to ensure the provision of appropriate and safe medication therapy in long-term care, close interprofessional cooperation and high levels of expertise are required. Online digital documentation and communication technology facilitate this process. The aim of the present study (sub-study 2 of the SiMbA-Study) was to evaluate a three-part health information technology (HIT) driven intervention on medication therapy safety in Austrian nursing homes (NHs) regarding its usefulness, practicability and implementation in routine care.

Piloting of the virtual telecare technology 'Addison Care' to promote self-management in persons with chronic diseases in a community setting: protocol for a mixed-methods user experience, user engagement and usability pilot study.

Introduction: Chronic diseases in older adults are one of the major epidemiological challenges of current times and leading cause of disability, poor quality of life, high healthcare costs and death. Self-management of chronic diseases is essential to improve health behaviours and health outcomes. Technology-assisted interventions have shown to improve self-management of chronic diseases.