In these communities there were two telephone resources available, a palliative hot line for healthcare providers and a nurse line for family care providers.
The final version of the survey is provided in 15 languages, in Braille, in British Sign Language, in both paper and on-line formats, and is supported by online and telephone resources.
For example assistive technology interventions such as videos, telephone helplines, resource networks, parent-to-parent links.
17 Furthermore, active follow-up was limited to calling patients and/or their contact person by telephone as resource-limited settings often do not have the possibility to conduct home visits.
Resources required to deliver care in both arms will be collected from a telephone-administered resource use questionnaire, administered to the participant or their carer, at 5 months postrandomisation, and a prospectively completed resource use log to use as a memory aid.
A patient commented on how having a telephone contact and resource person when symptoms worsened helped him achieve the objective of reducing costly ED usage: Well in my case it [the 1 800 number] has kept me out of Emergency.
f) Patient cost questionnaire at 6 month follow up – administered by trained interviewer at patient's home or by telephone to collect resource use data from discharge to follow-up, covering items recorded in (e) above.
Subjects were traced to obtain their current address and telephone number using resources such as Massachusetts Resident's Lists; death, credit bureau, and alumni records; telephone books, directory assistance, and the Internet White Pages.
Perhaps GP referral to internet resources, telephone support or written education material that provides useful and reliable healthy lifestyle advice for pregnant women in the management of GWG could be beneficial.
However, other studies have shown that the more participants know about the trials, the more willing they are to volunteer., Long-term follow-up and high retention rates are often particularly difficult to achieve when subjects are homeless or live in temporary housing, with no formal address or telephone and few resources to travel to health centers.
