Fourth, people with more than 20 professional contacts were requested to estimate these separately in terms of number and age to reduce reporting bias for persons with many professional contacts.
The OPs were requested to obtain two professional advices on each of three case vignettes which would lead to a maximum of 84 cases.
They were requested to provide names and e-mail addresses of other professionals with expert knowledge within the field (snowball sampling).
Clinicians and healthcare professionals in general are requested to increasingly adopt and integrate the latest available medical knowledge produced in their clinical practice [ 27].
In addition, individuals and health professionals in charge are requested to evaluate health and functioning using a rating scale ranging from 10 (excellent/no problems) to 0 (poor/complete problems).
Patients are requested to make the appointments with these professionals when needed.
Furthermore, health professionals (i.e., general practitioners, pharmacist, and lung specialists) are requested to place posters with accompanying flyers in their waiting rooms.
Older people receive this booklet at baseline and are requested to take it with them to each contact with professional health care providers for 18 months.
More sharing of information with other medical professionals was requested.
In response to the improved blood folate concentrations of reproductive age women, many health care professionals are requesting direction on how aggressively they should promote folic acid supplementation among patients with high blood folate concentrations during the periconceptional period.
