Adherence to vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 and vaccine safety in patients with immunoglobulin G4-related disease by Linda Mastromanno, Federico Giardina, Angelica Gattamelata, Serena Colafrancesco, Simona Truglia, Francesca Romana Spinelli, Edoardo Simoncelli, Bruno Lucchino, Fabrizio Conti, Roberta Priori

“…Patients with IgG4-RD in follow-up before the onset of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic were contacted by telephone and asked to answer an ad hoc questionnaire regarding their vaccination status against SARS-CoV-2 and related AEs following vaccination. …”
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Effectiveness of multicomponent interventions in primary healthcare settings to promote continuous smoking cessation in adults: a systematic review by Carlos Martín Cantera, Elisa Puigdomènech, Jose Luis Ballvé, Olga Lucía Arias, Lourdes Clemente, Ramon Casas, Lydia Roig, Santiago Pérez-Tortosa, Laura Díaz-Gete, Sílvia Granollers

“…Methodologies used were mainly individual or group sessions, telephone conversations, brochures or quit-smoking kits, medications and economic incentives for doctors and no-cost medications for smokers. …”
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Service preferences among postpartum women (non-)affected by different types of intimate partner violence: insights from the cross-sectional study INVITE by Laura M. Hausmann, Lara Seefeld, Amera Mojahed, Judith T. Mack, Susan Garthus-Niegel, Julia Schellong

“…Methods In the cross-sectional study INVITE, postpartum mothers (n = 3,509) were interviewed via telephone. Using the WHO-Violence Against Women Instrument (WHO-VAWI), women were divided into groups: non-affected women and women affected by psychological, physical, and/or sexual IPV. …”
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Patient perspectives on stress after ICU and a short primary care based psychological intervention – results from a qualitative sub‑study of the PICTURE trial by Antina Beutel, Linda Sanftenberg, Chris M. Friemel, Robert Philipp Kosilek, Maggie Schauer, Thomas Elbert, Ulf-Dietrich Reips, Tomke Schubert, Sabine Gehrke-Beck, Konrad Schmidt, Jochen Gensichen, for the PICTURE study group

“…Semi-structured, guideline-based telephone interviews were conducted for this purpose, processed, and analyzed using the structuring qualitative content analysis based on Mayring. …”
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Optimizing Virtual Follow-Up Care: Realist Evaluation of Experiences and Perspectives of Patients With Breast and Prostate Cancer by Sarah Scruton, Geoff Wong, Stephanie Babinski, Lauren R Squires, Alejandro Berlin, Julie Easley, Sharon McGee, Ken Noel, Danielle Rodin, Jonathan Sussman, Robin Urquhart, Jacqueline L Bender

“…Offering patients the choice of in-person, telephone, or video visits when possible, coupled with streamlined access to in-person care when required, is important. …”
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Cross-agency working when conducting a pragmatic RCT for older victims of crime: our experiences and lessons learned by Marc Serfaty, Jessica Satchell, Gloria K. Laycock, Chris R. Brewin, Marta Buszewicz, Gerard Leavey, Vari M. Drennan, Jonathan Cooke, Anthony Kessel

“…In the VIP trial, three screening methods were used: (1) visits by safer neighbourhood teams (SNTs), (2) police telephone screening and (3) employment of a university researcher embedded within the police service. …”
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Asociación entre percepción de ojo seco y uso de dispositivos electrónicos en estudiantes de medicina by Mario Valladares-Garrido, Fernando Munayco-Guillén, Araseli Verástegui-Diaz, Ramón Cámara-Reyes, Palmer José Hernández-Yépez, Mariana Huamán García, Virgilio Failoc-Rojas, Christian Richard Mejia

“…Conclusiones: El uso frecuente de teléfonos inteligentes se asoció con una mayor frecuencia de síntomas de ojo seco. …”
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‘That’s kind of under my work blanket’—redeployment experiences of children’s hospital staff during the covid-19 pandemic: a qualitative interview study by Paula Kelly, Susie Aldiss, Jo Wray, Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Faith Gibson

“…Hospital staff participated in an in-depth one-to-one telephone interview. We used a semi-structured interview guide, and recorded and transcribed all interviews. …”
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Level of Satisfaction Among Patients Using Insulin Administered by Pen vs Vial/Syringe. An Observational Prospective Study by Valladales-Restrepo LF, Delgado-Araujo AC, Oyuela-Gutiérrez MC, Ospina-Arzuaga HD, Machado-Alba JE

“…Sociodemographic, comorbidity and pharmacological data were taken from a drug dispensing database. Through telephone calls, satisfaction with application devices was evaluated with Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire status version (DTSQ-s). …”
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Assessing the Uses, Benefits, and Limitations of Digital Technologies Used by Health Professionals in Supporting Obesity and Mental Health Communication: Scoping Review by Amanda Kearns, Anne Moorhead, Maurice Mulvenna, Raymond Bond

“…ResultsIn total, 8 studies—featuring web-based platforms, social media, synchronous video calls, telephone calls, automated SMS text messaging, and email—met the inclusion criteria. …”
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Therapeutic Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided High-Voltage Long-Duration Pulsed Radiofrequency for Pudendal Neuralgia by Feng Ji, Shuzhuan Zhou, Caixia Li, Yongyan Zhang, Hua Xu

“…Alleviation of pain was assessed by the visual analogue scale (VAS) and sitting time pretreatment and on 7 d, 14 d, 1 m, 2 m, 3 m, and 6 m posttreatment in outpatient follow-up or by telephone interview. Two patients were lost due to intervention-irrelevant reasons. …”
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What are the perceptions and experiences of adults using mobile applications for self-management in diabetes? A systematic review by Benedict Hayhoe, Azeem Majeed, Geva Greenfield, Ana Luísa Neves, Henock B Taddese, Kalthum Patail, Hui Hsuan Pai

“…About 40% of the studies described unfavourable aspects related to uploading of excessive information, monitoring device incompatibility, episodic app crashes and telephone handling issues.Conclusion The review supports the favourable view of mobile applications as promising tools in helping patients with diabetes to self-manage. …”
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Cooperación y desigualdad by David Strauss

“…Los costos de esta forma de cooperación disminuyeron de manera sustancial debido a la difusión de Internet, el correo electrónico, los teléfonos celulares y la tecnología inalámbrica. …”
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Combining systemic inflammation biomarkers with traditional prognostic factors to predict surgical site infections in elderly hip fracture patients: a risk factor analysis and dyna... by Yuhui Guo, Chengsi Li, Haichuan Guo, Peiyuan Wang, Xuebin Zhang

“…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) definition of SSI was applied, with SSI identified through medical and pathogen culture records during hospitalization and routine postoperative telephone follow-ups. Multivariable logistic regression identified independent risk factors for SSI and developed predictive nomograms. …”
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A prediction nomogram for residual after negative pressure aspiration for endogenic cesarean scar ectopic pregnancy: a retrospective study by Yan Lei, Na Zhang, Yu Liu, Xin Du

“…Methods This retrospective study included patients treated in the gynecology department of our institution from May 2017 to August 2023 who underwent negative pressure suction treatment, ultrasound examinations before and after treatment, and received telephone follow-up for at least 6 months. A total of 899 patients met the inclusion criteria and were divided into a training cohort (629 patients, 70%) and a validation cohort (270 patients, 30%). …”
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Analysis of physical activity levels and influencing factors in cancer survivors after pancreaticoduodenectomy by Qiuju Tian, Meiqin Xue, Leying Chen, Min Zhang, Weiyi Zhu, Beiwen Wu

“…Variables univariately associated with the physical activity level at an alpha level of less than 0.1 were included in the logistic regression analysis of factors influencing physical activity in cancer survivors after pancreaticoduodenectomy.ResultsA total of 223 patients who met the eligibility criteria completed a telephone survey. The main form of physical exercise is walking, 69.5% of participants’ physical activity belongs to the active category, but only 16.6% of participants met the aerobic guideline. …”
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Advancing a machine learning-based decision support tool for pre-hospital assessment of dyspnoea by emergency medical service clinicians: a retrospective observational study by Wivica Kauppi, Henrik Imberg, Johan Herlitz, Oskar Molin, Christer Axelsson, Carl Magnusson

“…Methods This was a retrospective observational study including 6,354 patients who called the Swedish emergency telephone number (112) between January and December 2017. …”
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Assessment of Geriatric Problems and Risk Factors for Delirium in Surgical Medicine: Protocol for Multidisciplinary Prospective Clinical Study by Henriette Louise Möllmann, Eman Alhammadi, Soufian Boulghoudan, Julian Kuhlmann, Anica Mevissen, Philipp Olbrich, Louisa Rahm, Helmut Frohnhofen

“…Any medical problems detected will be treated according to current standards, and no intervention is planned as part of the study. In addition, a telephone follow-up will be performed 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge. …”
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Treatment and counselling preferences of postpartum women with and without symptoms of (childbirth-related) PTSD: findings of the cross-sectional study INVITE by Rosa Hannele Horstmann, Lara Seefeld, Julia Schellong, Susan Garthus-Niegel

“…Methods This study used data from the cross-sectional INVITE study, comprising telephone interviews with N = 3,874 women conducted six weeks to six months after childbirth. …”
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The Use of Social Network in Daily Pediatric Practice and Education: Turkish Pediatric Atelier by Erdem Gönüllü, Ahmet Soysal, İlkay Can, Ercan Tutak, Turan Tunç, İsmail Yıldız, Osman Yeşilbaş, Naci Öner, Ali Anarat, Feryal Gün Soysal, Cengiz Bayram, Mehmet Cihan Balcı, Emine Betül Tavil, Teoman Akçay, Metin Karaböcüoğlu

“…While the institutions and positions of the participants were recorded, no other personal data (such as address and telephone) were collected. Among the 997 members, 417 (42%) of them answered the questionnaire. …”
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