Due to the lack of telephone access for the deaf, Debbie often relayed conversations between hearing people and our parents on the telephone before she was old enough to understand what they were saying.
(Group 4, participant 4) For a number of participants, their lack of personal follow up reflected difficulties getting through on busy telephone lines, and restrictions on hours of telephone access for test results.
There was positive feedback regarding ease of telephone access for referral, location, and the value of a service staffed by senior doctors where children could be observed, investigated and discharged quickly.
In multivariable analysis adjusting for access and patient characteristic variables, worse access was independently associated with increased out-of-hours use for all measures except ease of telephone access.
Other studies have also found that the most effective measures to support GP and specialist cooperation is to allow for easy telephone access (for patients and healthcare professionals), increase the timeliness of discharge letters, and create feedback between professionals through frequent meetings.
Reversing its previous hostility to anything but minute-by-minute charges for Internet use, British Telecom said it would introduce a $50-a-month 50-a-monthcharge for unlimited telephone access to the Internet.
Then there are the gritty telecom issues: shoring up the Universal Services Fund, which pays for rural telephone access by taxing phone service in low-cost regions, and sorting out the mess of intercarrier compensation.
Participants will be provided with contact details for ready telephone access to research staff to notify the onset of diarrhoea or adverse events.
Patients pay an annual fee in exchange for guaranteed 24-hour telephone access and longer personalized consultation time for complex medical problems (as opposed to the rushed 15 minute appointments common in many overcrowded primary care practices).
In addition, the M.D.C.'s restrictive and inconsistent policies on telephone access for detainees prevented them from obtaining legal counsel in a timely manner.
