A total of 38 preparations over a period of 6 months were monitored by means of a finger ring dosimeter (position: middle finger, right hand) that was worn and evaluated monthly by the North Rhine-Westphalian Measurement Office in Dortmund (Materialprüfungsamt Dortmund) in accordance with German legislation.
In urban Guinea-Bissau, infants at age 6 months were monitored for a prospective cohort study, and at age 18 months, 1057 of them were genotyped for hemoglobin variants.
In 14 patients the clinical course over 6 months was monitored while in the other nine patients the histology following secondary resection of residual masses was available.
At baseline and at the last administration of the questionnaires (follow-up at 52 weeks) the absenteeism of the past 12 months is monitored.
Scientists have in recent months been monitoring the emergence of a new coronavirus – a variant of the respiratory virus that causes the common cold – which so far appears to have infected 15 patients and caused nine deaths across the world.
The children sprayed once daily for 4 months and were monitored for 6 months.
Patients not receiving alemtuzumab due to reasons other than insufficient chemotherapy response also underwent restaging 2. During the follow-up visits (years 1 2: every 3 months, years 3 5: every 6 months), patients were monitored by physical examination, routine laboratory testing and CT scans (every 6 months).
Patients for pulmonary tuberculosis enrolled under the directly observed treatment, short-course (DOTS) program were followed-up for six months and were monitored by sputum analysis, body weight and ELISA-based serum resistin and C-reactive protein (CRP) levels at 0, 2, 4 and 6 months, along with close family contacts of TB patients and healthy controls.
One-hundred and ninety-six opioid-treated patients with chronic, non-cancer pain of at least three months duration were monitored for opioid misuse at pre-defined intervals.
Weingarten et al. did not find an association between OSA and postoperative respiratory, cardiac, or surgical complications in affected patients who were treated preoperatively with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) or bi-level positive airway pressure (biPAP) for several weeks to months and were monitored with pulse oximetry postoperatively [ 64].
In the HORIZON-PFT, 3889 postmenopausal women (mean age, 73 years) were randomly assigned to receive a single 15-minute infusion of zoledronate (5 mg) and 3876 were assigned to receive placebo at baseline, at 12 months, and at 24 months; the patients were monitored for 36 months.
