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A trained psychologist carried out a telephone screening to check for exclusion criteria and subjects who passed the initial screening were interviewed with their relatives at clinical centres by psychiatrists experienced in working with children and adolescents.
Following these data pulls, we further examined patients' medical records to confirm the presence of an OA diagnosis (based on criteria noted above) and to check for exclusion criteria.
Secondly, men and women were contacted individually by phone, by the first author (HV) about a week after the letter was received; this provided an opportunity for the potential participants to ask questions, to check for exclusion criteria unavailable in the database and to book a place and time for an interview.
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We required all participants to have a plain radiograph of the shoulder to check for exclusions (see below), and we required potential participants recruited directly from the community to have the diagnosis of rotator cuff disease confirmed by a medical practitioner.
Firstly, the patient's medical record was checked for exclusion criteria.
Assuming fast reference checking for exclusion of irrelevant references as a first step of manual study selection [ 41], an experienced information specialist can check up to 1,000 references a day [ 53].
From this list 25 patients will be selected randomly (using random number tables), checked for exclusion criteria and – if eligible for the study – invited to participate in the study by a letter from their GP.
The aim of this telephone approach is triage: by checking for exclusion criteria such as psychological problems, patients who aren't deemed suitable for DNA-direct (due to its dependency on the patient's own decision making ability) are filtered out and instead invited for a regular intake consultation, where further psychosocial support is immediately available prior to DNA-testing.
Initially volunteers will be telephone-screened to check for obvious exclusion criteria.
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