Monday through Friday, all mothers who delivered at Brigham and Women's Hospital, a large Boston hospital, were approached for screening within 24 48 hr after delivery.
A total of 1283 consecutive attendees were approached for screening, while 1253 agreed to be screened (representing 97.7% of those approached).
During the main survey, every Somali entering any of these community sites was approached for screening, and either interviewed there or an interview appointment was arranged.
Approximately half of the children that were approached for the screening completed the screening questionnaire and approximately half of those identified as high- or median-anxious participated in the diagnostic interview.
From the second stage, only subjects who show interests and appear to be good candidates are approached for actual onsite screening or more intensive screening.
A total of 6369 patients were approached for consent and screened for OSA by the STOP-Bang questionnaire.
A total of 4,213 women were approached for A-CASI screening at the six clinic sites.
Those screening positive were approached for a telephone interview consisting of Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) short form, which has proven diagnostic quality for screening purposes [ 17, 18].
This approach is widely used to identify net CNAs targeting cancer-related genes but does not identify copy number neutral alterations that could be approached by screening for LOH using, e.g. SNP arrays.
The next Somali to enter the site when the researcher was next free was then approached for screening and the procedure was repeated.
