Intuitively, more frequent clinic visits should lead to earlier detection of recurrence and improved survival at the cost of reduced efficiency.
Thus, for patients with chronic diseases, who need more frequent clinic visits, the tendency for inappropriate admission increases, up to 39.9%.
Untreated psychiatric disorder in the presence of co-morbid conditions may result in more frequent clinic visits, increased costs, extended hospitalizations, and reduce compliance and quality of life [ 36].
Of these three dropout patients, one patient in the TCC group withdrew consent, one patient in the TCC group stopped treatment because of the development of an ulcer on the contralateral foot, and one patient in the Stabil-D group was unable to complete the off-loading treatment because of ulcer infection requiring antibiotic therapy and more frequent clinic visits.
It is important to note that "usual care" in both groups involved more frequent clinic visits, point-of-care HbA1c tests, and free blood glucose meters and test strips; these additional services and resources are not generally available in most US primary care practices.
The present study reveals that it is unwise to use weekly paclitaxel plus cisplatin in patients with NSCLC, at least among our Asian population, due to the shorter progression-free survival, relatively more frequent clinic visits, higher drug costs, and higher frequency of asthenia and myalgia which was not reduced after changing the paclitaxel schedule from once every 3 or 4 weeks to once weekly.
We have been able to improve the potential for team working by providing more frequent clinics, by negotiating access to electronic and paper clinical systems and by linking into established and referral systems.
Clinic visits were more frequent (1,225 clinic visits), but the percentage of visits with deviations was lowest (12.7%, 156 of 1,225 visits) during the first 6-months (P <0.0001).
One potential method for reducing the rate of readmissions is more frequent outpatient clinic review of patients after discharge.
This could have led to selection bias if this problem was more frequent in clinics with relatively high resistance prevalence.
In addition, being web-based, it allows for more frequent assessment without clinic visits.
