"We like to call them radio interventions," says Michael Morris of Artangel, the evil genius behind the project.
Participants were individually randomised to receive either a bed and bedside chair pressure sensor linked to a radio-pager (intervention group) or no sensor (control group), for the duration of their admission on the elderly care ward.
Methods: pragmatic, parallel-arm, individual randomised controlled trial of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors using radio-pagers (intervention group) compared with standard care (control group) in elderly patients admitted to acute, general medical wards, in a large UK teaching hospital.
They characteristically survive chemo- and radio-therapeutic interventions [ 41] and may thus be responsible for both tumor relapse and metastasis [ 42].
As well as military intervention, radio broadcasts are being used to encourage fighters to give themselves up in exchange for amnesty.
Although "contamination" is known to have occurred in Gayeri control cluster, the distances to the closest intervention radio station preclude population-level contamination in the other control clusters.
Samai and Sengeh (25) reported that the radio communication system intervention eliminated the time spent by the community health officer to travel by motorbike from the farthest peripheral health units to the referral hospital.
Many such techniques are in use today: mail shots, circulars, catalogues, phone calls with or without human or automatic intervention, radio, video phone, fax, TV telesales - and more to come in the future with CD-ROM, modems providing link-ups between personal computers, and so on.
The "back book" has also been used as a part of an information intervention including radio and TV spots and newspaper advertising in a large mass-media campaign about LBP in Australia, which had a short- [6] and long-term positive impact [38] on claims and costs related to LBP.
After randomization, DMI began formative qualitative research and capacity building with radio stations in the intervention clusters while the baseline survey took place.
