STM publisher Elsevier has announced that it is providing the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) access to ClinicalKey, Elsevier's primary online clinical information tool, to help doctors, nurses and other health professionals access the latest clinical information through mobile devices.
ClinicalKey facilitates evidence-based clinical decision-making for practitioners on the go, assisting RFDS' provision of vital health services to rural Australia.
The RFDS provides critical medical services to rural and remote parts of Australia. A recent report by the Centre for International Economics details that death rates in remote areas are thirty five percent higher than in cities, and life expectancy of country people is two years shorter than for city people. Country people see doctors half as often as those in the city, specialists a third as often, and mental health services a fifth as often.
The RFDS is best known for aeromedical retrieval, but it is more than a Flying Doctor and provides GP and nurse clinics, tele-health, dental care, mental health programs, mobile patient care and healthy living and wellness programs. In the last year they made 282,000 patient contacts, conducted 54,705 patient transports and delivered 82,305 remote area tele-health consultations.
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