These epidemiologists then determined which reports were forwarded to the clinical investigation team for additional follow-up.
Where contact details were available, panel members who had not visited the study website were targeted for additional follow-up.
I understand that only 4 patients consented for additional follow-up but isn't there even general properties of the clinical presentation that might provide additional insight?
Then, at each follow-up contact, the need for additional follow-up contacts is determined and, if necessary, the care and treatment plan is adjusted.
Of 830 women, 663 who chose to deliver at HMH gave birth to live babies without major anomalies and were included for additional follow-up.
However, to solve these questions, it is unavoidable to continue the studies for additional follow-up time and the organisation of large Phase IV studies, some of which are already in place.
Because of the requirement for additional follow-up time in the splenomegaly group, this was somewhat longer for patients with splenomegaly (28 months) than for those without splenomegaly (20 months).
Finally, a large proportion of patients included in this analysis were still undergoing treatment at the time of this analysis (47%) and the design of our survey does not allow for additional follow-up of these patients.
Although all controls with serum PSA >4 ng/ml were referred for additional follow-up with Urology, we were not able to ascertain what proportion of these controls had underlying PrCa.
11 To address this concern, we used methods developed by Andersson et al 11 which used flexible parametric models 16 17 to model the observed survival curves and then extrapolated these to estimate the survival curves for additional follow-up intervals.
First, we point out that the way we defined women recalled for additional follow-up imaging and diagnostic testing services closely approximates the BI-RADS definitions of recall, but there may have been a small number of women who were in fact recalled but went directly to magnetic resonance imaging, biopsy, or fine needle aspiration without diagnostic imaging.
