The costs of a telephonic intervention for diabetes self-management support are moderate and commensurate to the modest associated improvement in glycemic control.
Secondary assessment of adherence is by means of a telephonic pill count.
The option of a telephonic interview or online interview will be offered.
The eligible A1C was ≥7.5%, which is above the usual management goal of <7% (3), but would provide a margin for lowering the A1C in a telephonic intervention with no in-person contact without raising safety concerns.
At 90th day, a telephonic interview was performed for outcome assessment.
The present research describes (a) new methods developed to facilitate sample recruitment and survey data collection from a national B-MAT patient sample and (b) a telephonic support program designed for new B-MAT patients.
Among those with lung or upper aerodigestive tract cancer who had the choice between a telephonic or postal interview, 68% asked for the latter.
A telephonic intervention delivered by health educators was successful for a poor, urban, bilingual diabetes population for a single behavior, such as going for a dilated eye examination for retinopathy screening (10), and at a moderate cost (11).
A telephonic interview was performed to collect information about medical risk factors for chronic Q fever and to identify possible exposure to the source of infection.
A Time Warner spokesman, Edward Adler, later labeled it a "telephonic handshake".
