Moving Mountains: Virtual Reality in Palliative Care. By Sarah Beauclerk

The proverb, ‘If the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, then Muhammad must go to the mountain’ speaks of seeking an alternative if the wished-for reality is not possible. But what if Muhammad is too ill to go to the mountain? In today’s fast-moving era of extending reality through technology, can a virtual mountain, or other […]

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Quick Response Palliative Care: Are wearable medical identification wristbands with QR code technology acceptable to palliative care patients?

Dr Elin Harding, Palliative Medicine Doctor, Clinical Research Fellow, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK   ORCID 0009-0003-7100-7998 Dr Martha Thomas, Foundation Year 1 Doctor, Princess of Wales, Bridgend, UK   0009-0004-5908-8550 Dr Nikki Pease, Palliative Medicine Consultant, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff, UK 0000-0002-8994-749 In the last year of life, palliative patients increasingly access emergency unscheduled care via […]

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