For details about this year's schedule, contact Patrick Redbird, (405) 522-3929, at the Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, Travel and Tourism Division , Post Office Box52002, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Although the reduced visit schedule, contact time and CBT component array that characterize MM+I-CBT amount to a "low dose" version of CBT, the driving rationale for MM+I-CBT is not primarily a test of low versus high dose CBT but rather of a single versus a two doctor model for administering CBT to SRI partial responders.
The modelling assumed the program continued for ten years, and that participants continued to receive scheduled contacts from counsellors and feedback.
In all other cases, all information transfer between practice assistant and GP occurred during scheduled contacts.
Taking what had happened in the 2004 survey into account, we decided to slightly increase the number of scheduled contacts.
In the usual care group, eight (15%) patients had one or more COPD related scheduled contacts with the practice nurse and, therefore, deviated from the study protocol.
Adherence to training was very good, even in the at-home training group, which did not benefit from the support of weekly scheduling contacts.
Furthermore, pregnancy offers a 'window of opportunity' for health interventions, as predominantly young healthy pregnant women have frequent scheduled contacts with health-care providers.
Thus, there is a contradiction between the patients' needs for contact and the short stays at hospital with few specified and scheduled contacts between the patients and healthcare professionals.
Pregnancy is an opportune time to offer support to women, as they have frequent scheduled contacts with health-care providers and are often highly motivated to adapt their behaviour to improve the health of their infant.
In addition, the less frequently scheduled contacts with study personnel in the OLM relative to the RCT may have compromised the ability to detect breakthrough HE episodes in the OLM period.
