Two main service access barriers were experienced: unfamiliarity with the service, and delays in obtaining initial appointments for ongoing therapy.
In a study of 233 women who were awaiting their initial appointments for risk assessment, consideration of prophylactic mastectomy strongly correlated with high levels of breast cancer anxiety and overestimation of one's breast cancer risk, whereas there was no association with objective breast cancer risk [ 21].
Instead of waiting months for an initial appointment for a prescription — and then potentially months after that for a follow-up — the goal for Curology was to get the treatments into the hands of patients as quickly as possible.
Scotland team doctor James Robson was also confirmed as a member of the Lions staff for a sixth successive tour, following his initial appointment for the 1993 tour to New Zealand.
After an initial appointment for diagnosis, Kaiser patients are forced to wait weeks or months for follow-up appointments, making consistent, effective treatment difficult if not impossible.
But that bounced back and forth between answering machines, trying to make the initial appointment for about 6 months.
In a cross-sectional study, Meiser et al (2000) investigated a large sample of unaffected women, who were awaiting their initial appointment for genetic counselling.
If eligible and still interested, an initial appointment for the informed consent procedure, further screening, and collection of baseline information and measurements was scheduled.
At baseline, fieldworkers visited households to contact potential participants, verify inclusion and exclusion criteria, invite them to the study, read consent forms, apply questionnaires to participants and make an initial appointment for clinical evaluation.
All women in this arm of the trial were sent an initial appointment for one of the community-based clinics (held in a GP practice near to where they lived), run by a genetic nurse specialist.
All women in this arm of the trial were sent an initial appointment for one of the community-based clinics (held in a GP practice near to where they lived), run by a genetics nurse specialist (RC/RT).
