Overall, therapist-assisted ICBT was effective when coordinated across settings in clinical practice, but further attention should be given to strategies to improve completion of treatment modules.
Documentation in (electronic) notes did not improve completion of plans.
A further review found that patient education may improve completion of treatment for latent TB (no trials were found investigating the effect of patient education for active TB) (M'Imunya 2012).
41 To improve completion rates of self-rated questionnaires at follow-up for both treatment completers and treatment drop-outs, study participants will be offered honorarium gift vouchers to the value of $10 at treatment completion; $20 at3-monthh follow-up; $25 at 6-month follow-up and $30 at 12-month follow-up.
Understanding factors associated with drug treatment dropout can aid efforts to improve completion rates, outcomes, and overall effectiveness of California's Proposition 36 program.
To improve the completion of service user completed outcome measures such as the SDQ, new technologies could be implemented to facilitate their use.
Based on the experiences in adult therapeutic studies, the implementation of session-by-session monitoring in CAMHS may improve the completion of follow-up measures, help clinicians detect sudden large improvements [ 18] and lead to better patient outcome [ 9], however, little is known about the feasibility and acceptability of this system.
An option to improve the completion of cytoreductive surgery may be the use of photodynamic therapy to induce necrosis of peritoneal metastases.
However, after an uncomplicated lung transplant procedure, lung function starts to improve following completion of surgery and is usually best 3 6 months after transplantation.
The WelTel patient-centred text-message service is an efficacious and cost-effective strategy to improve treatment completion of 9 months of INH (9-INH) among patients with LTBI at British Columbia (BC) TB clinics.
