They still like to get a letter – Patient preference for follow-up after radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillationBackground: Several studies have shown that phone calls are an effective but resource-intensive follow-up (FU) method to collect patient reported data (PROM) after discharge ...
Currently, patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have frequent scheduled visits, but it may be possible to optimise the frequency of hospital consultations using information from patient-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires filled in at home (PRO-based follow-up). This approach may provide a...
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Sample size calculation and sampling technique A search for a related publication in a setting comparable to the current one or in Ethiopia was conducted to determine the sample size for the study. We looked up the percentage/prevalence of suicide thoughts and attempts in Ethiopia and compared it...
Primary care practices were randomized in a 1:1:1:1 ratio to (1) usual care, (2) EHR reminders, (3) EHR reminders and outreach (a patient letter was sent at week 2 and a phone call at week 4), or (4) EHR reminders, outreach, and navigation (a patient letter was sent at week...
The hospital used a systematic random sampling procedure to select study participants from the medical records of patients in chronic cardiac follow-up clinics. Main outcome measures Exposures were optimal medical therapy (OMT) versus non-optimal medical therapy collected from May to August 2023. ...
For a normative study of chronic low back pain (CLBP), 702 consecutive admissions to a large multidisciplinary CLBP treatment program were assessed at admission, discharge, and 1-month follow-up, using a variety of psychological and functional performance instruments. Both univariate and multivariate...
While population-based studies have given prevalences in the range of 1.4 to 8.5% – and 12.1% in the EMIL follow-up study – studies on selected subjects have given values between 6.1 and 12.3%, while studies on patient populations have given values of 0.06 to 26.5%. The majority of ...
Patient follow-up outside Stanford Health Care was calculated based on the self-reported behavior of the sample of 93 survey respondents. Of 93 patients who provided consent for the phone survey, 68 had followed up with an ophthalmologist, whereas 25 had not. Approval for this study was ...
In Section 5 we apply the new design to a study of imaging biomarkers for AD. Section 6 provides conclusions and discussions. Notation We borrow some notations from matrix calculus. A matrix is denoted by a capital letter. A vector is denoted by a lowercase letter. Every vector is a ...