These telephonic interactions are guided by a system that provides nurses with patient data, assessments, and individual action plans tailored to patient data and assessment responses.
These classifiers are then applied to patient data, allowing assessment of the performance of each method.
HW and HK designed the study profile, participated in the patient selection, data assessment and drafted the manuscript.
A Belgian web-based software system (BelRAI-software) was developed to provide a uniform web-based (online) registration of patient data and assessments from the interRAI instruments e.g. interRAI Acute Care (interRAI AC), interRAI Home Care (interRAI HC) and interRAI Long Time Care Facilities (interRAI LTCF).
Furthermore, the lack of systematic periodic CD4 cell assessments for some of the studied patients disabled data assessment at specific periods, which is a major flaw in this study.
Data collection covers a multimodal approach: (1) patient-by data assessment (including available medical records) and (2) clinical examination in the clinical visit via an electronic case report form (eCRF), (3) standardised interview by CATI, data alignment of study data with the databases of (4) the local registry offices and (5) the local cancer registry.
Figure 1 illustrates the mean score for each of the two domains in a series from the first assessment point onwards for those points with assessments on 10 or more patients; data from assessment points with fewer than 10 patients (the 17th. onwards) have been aggregated.
Altogether 10 patients were eligible for data assessment, 9 patients after 4 cycles (TS1) and 1 patient after 6 cycles (TS2).
The Cochrane handbook 28 makes several recommendations for the meta-analysis of trials that report multiple time points, including the use of individual patient data meta-analysis and assessment of one particular time point.
An electronic alarm signal daily reminded patients to complete the data assessment.
We would like to kindly thank Stefan Rueckriem, Sara Wüstemann, Clara Luise Buck, Christine Schlitter and Corinna Illgen for their support in data assessment and patient recruitment.
