Another trial provided automatic telephone messages in addition to face to face, telephone, and written contacts.
Information on ever use of treatments for the subjects' first breast cancer, including chemotherapy, radiation, and tamoxifen, was subsequently obtained from three sources: (1) medical record abstractions, (2) telephone and written contacts with subjects or their proxies, and (3) CSS.
In the 1980s, while writing Contact, Carl Sagan needed help with a plot point.
"Had I not fallen in love with Mike Ockrent, I could not have written 'Contact.' " The cast of "Contact" also fared well at the awards.
Gathering information, written contact (through e-mail) and other tasks have been speeded up immeasurably thanks to the forward march of technology.
Abu Ayman, he wrote, contacted the Sunni leader of the criminal gang holding the journalists.
In many instances, written contact was followed by telephone interviews.
In many instances, written contact is followed by telephone interviews with the patients or their family.
One trialist did not wish to be interviewed by telephone, preferring email or written contact only.
The following data were provided by the counsellors: date, duration and method of contact (telephone call, personal visit, home visit, written contact, contact with institutions, contact with GP) and up to three main conversation partners (i.e. caregiver, patient).
