Consistent follow-up is crucial.
Ninety percent is consistent follow-up.
This study, carried out in two centres of Gaucher disease expertise with consistent patient follow-up for 20 years, found a 2·5-fold increased risk of cancer and a 12·7-fold increased risk of haematological cancers.
Given the fact that several members in the same family are often affected, the intervention may target the patient and the family, with consistent longitudinal follow-up being a critical component.
Efforts documented in the literature, such as the use of smart phone technology for improving the supervision of tuberculosis patients, can help to provide more regular and consistent follow up with health workers [ 38].
Our findings are consistent with follow-up studies of people with self harm presenting clinically, which have found an increased risk of psychiatric disorder, future self harm, and substance use problems in adulthood, 6 7 compared with those without a history of self harm.
Findings revealed that key themes identified from baseline interviews were consistent with follow-up interviews and a number of strategies to develop research capacity which were identified in the first set of interviews, were being developed and adopted by the organisation and indicating positive outcomes.
After normal saline retention enema, the nature of obstruction of the ureter and extrahepatic bile duct in 95% of the patients can be determined by ultrasonography when conventional transabdominal ultrasound fails, and the results are consistent with the follow-up data.
The results of the combined analysis are consistent with the follow-up study.
This discrepancy is consistent with our follow-up study in the same VLBW group at 14 years of age [ 38].
Participants randomised to telephone follow-up received telephone appointments from breast care nurses at intervals consistent with hospital follow-up policy.
