After the initial visit, the NP made subsequent home or telephone visits, as required.
The usual care intervention includes appropriate primary care and specialty office practice visits, as required.
Other blood tests are done during follow-up visits as required by national guidelines.
First, wearing an armband allows participants to better understand what type of activities would be required in the study and to see if the participant would be compliant with attending multiple study visits, as required by the trial.
Our results is similar to the results of Sun et al [ 15], they reported the majority of TB patients in rural areas do not receive DOT from village doctors and rarely get support, such as visits as required, from the CTBDs or township health providers in Shandong, China.
Branch and bound or genetic algorithms may not be practical when analysing multiple sets of visit requests, as required in simulation experiments, but they would provide a valuable comparison to determine the range of validity for the simple algorithm adopted in this study.
The project nurse at each centre will undertake at least one home visit (on or soon after the day of discharge at a time when insulin is due), with home visits continued as required according to the needs of individual families.
The remaining 33 patients did not participate because they were unable to visit our hospital as required in the schedule defined in the study protocol.
The patients were transferred to pediatric wards, and visited ICU each day, as required, for PE therapy, although there was an economical problem in that an ICU administration fee could not be claimed for the patient according to the Japanese national health insurance system.
