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In part one, I explained the basics of good telephone practice, and I made suggestions on how to get over the fear of talking to people you don't know well.
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26 Typically, patients are asked to telephone practices 7 days after providing a sample to learn their result and to arrange any appropriate follow-up.
Median gFOBt kit uptake in the target population (aged 59 70) was 46.7% in the telephone practices, 43.8% in the face-to-face practices and 39.1% in the comparison practices.
The recruitment process involved telephoning practices, posting information, visiting practices, identifying potential participants, posting invitations and obtaining consent.
The researchers telephoned practices to invite them to participate and to further explain the study purpose and requirements for participation.
Arrangements were made for follow-up contact from the research nurses who telephoned practices two weeks before patient visits were due both as a reminder and as an opportunity to discuss any problems or queries.
Staff at 80% of practices reported that the default method for communicating normal results required patients to telephone the practice and 40% of practices required that patients also call for abnormal results.
Initially we only had email addresses for seven practices so most (24) were contacted by trying to telephone the practice.
In all four practices, patients were most commonly told by a GP or phlebotomist to telephone the practice after a stated time interval.
The authors also found that giving women diagnoses over the telephone, a practice that has become increasingly common in prepaid health-care settings, was "fraught with inaccurate diagnoses".
cSum of telephone contacts, practice consultations, and home visits.
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