The first consultation was reduced from 45 minutes to 22.5 and the second from 30 minutes to 15 minutes.
As could be expected, the need for having an interpreter present at the consultation was reduced with the immigrant's length of stay in Norway.
As the community capacity to manage the day-to-day responsibility of patient care has increased, the actual need for PPCS involvement and thus a home video-consultation is reduced.
Between the years 1996 and 2001 the number of consultations was reduced from 139,137 to 50,214 and admissions fell from 19,511 to 11,927, while the occupancy rates fell from 104.6%to88.4%4% [ 4].
However, the possibility of offering women this kind of consultation today is reduced due to shortage of both time and resources.
Support is reduced in a stepwise manner and personal consultations are replaced by telephone consultations (week 3, 5, 7, 9 and 11).
Where plaster backslabs were replaced with removable splints, the consultation time was reduced.
Therefore, the need for professional health consultation may be reduced for certain medical conditions.
Moreover, patient education and involvement in treatment decisions can improve adherence to therapy [ 18- 20]; thus, it is possible that, without a clinical consultation, adherence was reduced in the switched cohort and asthma control worsened.
During follow-up there was no overall difference in time to reconsultation, but there was non-significant evidence that repeat consultations might be reduced in the delayed group (table 2).
