SP was the supervisor who was actively involved in all phases of the study including original idea, design, data analysis, interpretation and writing the report.
TDT, TT and JF participated in all phases of the study, including the original idea, design, data collection, data analysis and interpretation.
RMB participated in all phases of the study, including study design, analyses, interpretation and final manuscript preparation and provided funding from the Fibromyalgia Information Foundation.
The advisory board participated in all phases of the study, including initial protocol design, prospective determination of data to be collected, and consideration of participating sites.
IUNS was involved in all phases of the study, including study design, data collection, data analysis, interpretation, and write-up of the manuscript; TNA.
KDJ participated in all phases of the study, including study design; oversight of MS students; data collection, entry, analyses and interpretation; and final manuscript preparation.
The first phase of the study, including a 12-month follow-up postpartum, was completed in January 2014.
A total of four part-time staff are employed for the initial phase of the study including a dental therapist, employed as a project manager.
A sample size of 200 patients (∼100 patients for each phase of the study), including an up to 15% dropout rate at 12 months of follow-up, was calculated from a review of several publications on the economics of telemonitoring in countries other than Italy.
In the South East Asia Optimising Reproductive and Child Health In Developing countries (SEA-ORCHID) project, the three phases of the study included audit of the baseline rates and clinical care practice, an educational intervention to improve evidence-based care followed by an audit of change of rates and quality of clinical practice [ 7].
Data from phase 1 of the study, including the patients' demographics and co-morbidities are summarized in conjunction with the presence and absence of brain metastases and SVID in Table 1.
