Minimal Clinically Important Difference for 6-Minute Walk Distance in Singaporean Adults with Chronic Respiratory Diseases by Meredith T LYEUNG, Alan W P WONG, Katherine S L HUANG, Alice Y M JONES

“…These participants were interviewed by telephone and rated their perceived change of improvement after pulmonary rehabilitation program using the Global Rating of Change(GROC)scale;the change in 6MWD before and after the program in these patients were compared with their perceived improvement and such relation is illustrated by the receiver operating characteristic curve(ROC). …”
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ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Simulation Case for Evaluation of Interprofessional Performance in a Hospital by Hadiki Habib, Eka Ginanjar, Arif Mansjoer, Septo Sulistio, Imamul A. Albar, Radi M. Mulyana

“…Some factors that contributed to these conditions were long waiting time during patient admission, several attempts for telephone consultation to the cardiologist, and prolonged admission process in the cardiac catheterization laboratory. …”
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Making space for patients’ preferences in precision medicine: a qualitative study exploring perspectives of patients with rheumatoid arthritis by Bente Appel Esbensen, Karin Schölin Bywall, Jennifer Viberg Johansson, Inger Erlandsson, Marie Heidenvall, Marta Lason

“…Interviews were conducted digitally (October 2020–February 2021) via Zoom or telephone, depending on each participant’s preferences.Participants Patients with RA (N=12) were purposively recruited. …”
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Family Support and Its Association with Glycemic Control in Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia by Adwa M. AlHaidar, Norah A. AlShehri, Munira A. AlHussaini

“…Data were collected via telephone interview and the verified “Modified Diabetes Social Support Questionnaire-Family version”. …”
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Can Gastric Cancer Patients with High Mandard Score Benefit from Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy? by Wen-Zhe Kang, Bing-Zhi Wang, Deng-Feng Li, Zhi-Chao Jiang, Jian-Ping Xiong, Yang Li, Peng Jin, Xin-Xin Shao, Hai-Tao Hu, Yan-Tao Tian

“…The survival of all patients was obtained by telephone follow-up. Multivariate Cox regression was used to assess the relationship between overall risk of death and Mandard score, imaging evaluation, and ypN stage. …”
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Visibility Enhancement of Lesion Regions in Chest X-Ray Images With Image Fidelity Preservation by Ryoichi Ishikawa, Tomohisa Yuzawa, Taiki Fukiage, Masataka Kagesawa, Toru Watsuji, Takeshi Oishi

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Patient Experience of Living With Hemophilia A: A Conceptual Model of Humanistic and Symptomatic Experience in Adolescents, Adults, and Children by Zalmai Hakimi, Rakhee Ghelani, Linda Bystrická, Nana Kragh, Patrick Marquis, Jameel Nazir, Nadine McGale

“…Qualitative research was conducted involving semistructured telephone interviews with PwHA and caregivers between April 2020 and September 2020 in the UK. …”
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Prognostic Value of Procalcitonin for Morbidity and Mortality in Patients after Cardiac Surgery by Ahmad Amouzeshi, Farshid Abedi, Mahmoud Zardast, Yaser Rezaeian Bilondi, Zahra Amouzeshi

“…The required data were collected using the patients’ medical records and telephone interviews with the patient or his/her relatives by passing one year from their discharge. …”
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Peer support and social networking interventions in diabetes self-management in Kenya and Uganda: A scoping review. by Habil Otanga, Brian Semujju, Lynn Mwaniki, Justus Aungo

“…Peer support and social networking interventions incorporated microfinance and group medical visits, diabetes self-management education, telephone support and Medication Adherence Clubs. Most interventions were delivered by multidisciplinary teams comprising nurses and other professionals, peer educators, peer leaders and community health workers. …”
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The impact of drinking on smoking cessation outcomes among Hong Kong Chinese youth smokers by Ka Yan Ho, Katherine Ka Wai Lam, Qi Liu, Ting Mao, Funa Yang, Mulualem Getaneh Belay, Cynthia Sau Ting Wu, Mak Yim Wah

“…This study adopted a cross-sectional design at the Youth Quitline, which is the only government-funded hotline providing telephone smoking cessation counselling to Hong Kong smokers aged 25 or younger. …”
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Clinical Features and Risk Factors of Mortality in Patients with Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome by Hong-Wei Cui, Ru-Yi Lei, Bo-Ai Zhang

“…All patients were followed up by telephone. Finally, the patients were divided into the survival group and death group for prognosis analysis. …”
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Prolonged adhesiolysis to pregnancy interval is associated with placenta accreta spectrum in women with intrauterine adhesion by Lan Xiang, Duoxiang Sun, Juan He, Yali Zhuang

“…Clinical data were obtained from electronic medical records and telephone interviews.Results Among a total of 102 IUA women with successful pregnancies, 8 (7.8%) suffered from miscarriages with PAS, and 94 (92.2%), 47 with PAS and 47 without PAS, had successful delivery. …”
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Managing the work of living with heart failure: a qualitative study using the cumulative complexity model from Southeastern Minnesota by Dawn Finnie, Víctor M Montori, Jamie Smith, Margaret M Redfield, Jill M Killian, Nathan Shippee, Shannon Dunlay

“…The objective of this study was to understand how patients build capacity and manage the work of living with HF.Design A qualitative study using semi-structured telephone interviews. The interview guide was informed by the Cumulative Complexity Model, a conceptual framework that focuses on a patient’s workload and their capacity to manage that work. …”
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Factors that influence the feasibility and implementation of a complex intervention to improve the treatment of peripheral arterial disease in primary and secondary care: a qualita... by Athanasios Saratzis, Vanessa Lawrence, Ruth Benson, Emma Watson, Prakash Saha, Clair Le Boutillier, Bernadeta Bridgwood

“…Objectives Our aim was to examine the feasibility and implementation of a complex intervention to improve the care of patients with peripheral arterial disease (the LEGS intervention) from the perspective of patients, general practitioners and secondary care clinicians.Design A qualitative study involving semistructured individual interviews with patients and providers to gain an understanding of the feasibility of the LEGS intervention as well the barriers and facilitators to implementation in secondary and primary care.Setting Primary and secondary care settings across two National Health Service Trusts.Participants Twenty-five semistructured telephone interviews were conducted with (1) patients who had received the intervention (n=11), (2) secondary care clinicians responsible for delivering the intervention (n=8) and (3) general practitioners (n=6).Analysis Data were initially analysed using inductive descriptive thematic analysis. …”
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Health data sharing in Germany: individual preconditions, trust and motives by Elias Kühnel, Felix Wilke

“…The aim of this study is to identify attitudes and factors that influence citizens’ willingness to share personal health data for medical research purposes.MethodsA standardized cross-sectional telephone survey was conducted among the German population aged 18 and above. …”
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A qualitative interview study of care home managers’ experiences of medicines optimisation for residents with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic by Carmel M Hughes, Heather E Barry, Nawaf Alsulami

“…Objectives To explore care home managers’ views and experiences of optimising medicines use for residents with dementia during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design, setting and participants A descriptive exploratory qualitative study using semistructured interviews (conducted via telephone or online videoconferencing platform), with care home managers across Northern Ireland, purposively sampled from care homes that provided care for residents with dementia. …”
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Anti T-lymphocyte Globulin (Grafalon®) Use during Rabbit Anti-thymocyte Globulin (Thymoglobulin®) Shortage – A Single-center Experience by Shailendra Tiwari, Namrata S Rao, Abhilash Chandra, Majibullah Ansari, Sanjeet Kumar Singh

“…Missing information was collected telephonically. Results: A total of 78 RTRs were included in the analysis, of whom 28 received rATG at a dose of 3 mg/kg (Period I) and 50 received ATLG at a dose of 5–6 mg/kg (Period II). …”
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Circular RNA microarray expression profile and potential function of circDOCK1 in colorectal cancer by Guojing Zhang, Xiaoyan Wu, Hongmin Fu, Daqing Sun

“…Follow-up data from patient telephone interviews were analyzed for survival outcomes. …”
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Impact of economic shocks on mental health during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adult residents of Indian metropolitan cities by Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta, Saswata Ghosh, Soumitra S. Datta

“…Materials and Methods: The data were collected using the abridged version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Schedule administered through a telephonic survey on adult residents of six metropolitan cities in September–August 2020 and July–August 2021. …”
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Patients’ and physiotherapists’ perspectives on implementing a tailored stratified treatment approach for low back pain in Nigeria: a qualitative study by Kay Stevenson, Mishael Adje, Jost Steinhäuser, Chidozie Emmanuel Mbada, Sven Karstens

“…This study aimed to investigate the perceptions of physiotherapists and patients in Nigeria towards stratified care for the treatment of LBP, exploring barriers and enablers to implementation.Methods A qualitative design with semistructured individual telephone interviews for physiotherapists and patients with LBP comprising research evidence and information on stratified care was adopted. …”
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