When the cost of building in extra time for the telephone consultations was added the cost rose to £260 for practice nurses and £191 for lay educators (Scenario 3).
The last criterion (prescription of an antipsychotic during the consultation) was added for two reasons.
As 12 weeks was the midpoint of the ERS studied, a measure of completion (defined as number of participants who attended the 24-week consultation) was added.
For the intervention group, an early palliative care consultation is added to standard care; the control group benefits from standard care only.
Since it is possible that the two consultations will only be the first step in a long process of preventive support, a telephone consultation is added to the intervention as the initial step towards follow-up.
Uncertainty about obesity, concerns about alienating patients and feeling unable to raise the topic within the constraints of a 10 min consultation, is adding to the reluctance of GPs and nurses to broach the topic of weight.
Consultation fees were added to the total expenses.
After many painstaking rounds of consultation, classes were added and removed or changed in the ontology to help better represent the actions performed in various protocols.
Some additional questions were added following consultations with stakeholders.
