Telephone-based interventions in outpatient care
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Telephone-based interventions in outpatient care.
Telephone calls have long been integral to health care delivery. Patients often contact physicians to determine whether symptoms require a face to face visit, and physicians call patients to follow up oYce visits. As it became increasingly clear that patient education for chronic disease requires time beyond a single oYce visit, telephone-based intervention became viewed as a potential eVective...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0003-4967
DOI: 10.1136/ard.57.4.196