The aims of the review were to (1) gain an understanding of current follow-up practices from studies involving health care professionals, (2) identify and evaluate studies presenting views of survivors, (3) examine commentaries on both the current and future design of long-term follow-up services and (4) evaluate existing follow-up guidelines.
The study recruited from three centres, one of which had an existing follow-up service and two that did not.
Patients were selected from an existing follow-up cohort of children with functional constipation formed between 1991 1999 [ 2].
From the existing follow-up cohort of 416 children with constipation, 299 patients reached the age of 18 years before January 2007.
A qualitative study we conducted also highlighted the importance of unmet psychosexual needs and some of the shortcomings of existing follow-up systems.
Existing follow-up studies have primarily been conducted in clinical samples, which account for less than 20% of self harm episodes in the community.
Existing follow-up studies have typically been conducted in small clinical samples 6 7 8 9; however, clinical presentation occurs in less than 20% of adolescents who self harm in the community.
The year 1983 was chosen as a starting point because existing follow-up guidelines have only been slightly modified since then (addition of lymph node sonography to routine follow-up in 1986; extension of the follow-up period from 8 10 years in 1994).
In this study, using a cost-effectiveness (C/E) analysis, we compared the three existing follow-up strategies recommended in France, Europe and the USA after occupational exposure to HCV, with a strategy based on early HCV RNA testing, according to the risk of HCV transmission.
The moves to toughen some policies and loudly proclaim existing ones follow disclosures in court documents in Boston that a priest known to be sexually abusive had been reassigned to new pastoral duties, where he abused children again.
Existing infrastructures follow a master/worker model, with a centralized architecture.
