Further up the ladder the number of second six pupillages, the final six month stage of training, fell by 3.6% to 477.
All the men, therefore, at this six month stage, will be sent a letter asking them to access and complete the online questionnaire.
Men in control group B will also be asked at the six month stage to complete the online questionnaire in order to provide a control for the other three groups.
The comparison between Control Group A and Control Group B allows a consideration of the Hawthorne effect of the questionnaire on PSA testing, to aid interpretation of outcomes in Intervention Groups 1 & 2. At the six month stage, after the ascertainment of PSA testing status, men in the two intervention groups and control group A will be asked to repeat the online questionnaire.
In both cohorts, at the three month follow-up stage, this percentage had almost doubled.
Stengel says that the length of time they spent planning the operation was risky, too, because something could have been leaked at any time during the seven month planning stage.
Stage 1 was a three month period of no new intervention (control phase); stage 2 comprised a three month intensive diet; and stage 3 was a three month follow-up after completion of the diet (fig 1).
Triangle Startup Factory, the most highly capitalized technology accelerator in the southeast, runs an intensive, three month program customized for early stage startup companies.
Participants will also be asked to provide a contact telephone number (including mobile and/or next of kin) for the purpose of the project co-ordinator contacting them at the three and six month follow up stage.
This training was in addition to monthly updates team members received over a ten month period on the stage by stage development of G-AP and patient held record (ReACH Team involvement in G-AP development is described elsewhere [ 20]).
It will start in the Yorkshire city on 5 July, one of two stages in the county, before the riders race from Cambridge to London prior to the French stages.
