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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial.

24 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Although African American adults bear a disproportionate burden from diabetes mellitus (DM), few randomized controlled trials have tested culturally appropriate interventions to improve DM care. METHODS: We randomly assigned 542 African ... Read more...

Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Effective smoking cessation for youth is urgently needed, but the literature guiding such efforts is nascent. We evaluated the implementation of a proactive intervention for adolescent smoking cessation that incorporated motivational ... Read more...

Group-randomized trial of a proactive, personalized telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation.

10 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: The Hutchinson Study of High School Smoking randomized trial was designed to rigorously evaluate a proactive, personalized telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. METHODS: Fifty randomly selected Washington ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Telephone'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Ring! Ring!: safeguarding patient information with password protection for phone calls. 30 Oct 2009
• The effects of a nurse case manager and a community health worker team on diabetic control, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations among urban African Americans with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial. 24 Oct 2009
• Design and implementation of an effective telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. 10 Oct 2009
• Group-randomized trial of a proactive, personalized telephone counseling intervention for adolescent smoking cessation. 10 Oct 2009
• Helping adolescent smokers quit: can telephone quitlines lead the way? 10 Oct 2009
• StatBite: cancer pain. 29 Sep 2009
• Telephone recruitment into a randomized controlled trial of quitline support. 29 Sep 2009
• Development of a pharmacist-managed, telephone-based tobacco-cessation clinic for veterans. 13 Sep 2009
• Case management for depression by health care assistants in small primary care practices: a cluster randomized trial. 13 Sep 2009
• Systematic telephone triage of possible 'swine' influenza leads to potentially serious misdiagnosis of infectious diseases. 8 Sep 2009
• Education research: patient telephone calls in a movement disorders center: lessons in physician-trainee education. 6 Sep 2009
• [Information and communication technology interventions supporting carers of people with Alzheimer's disease: a literature review] 30 Aug 2009
• Experience with a Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi rheumatology telephone helpline. 30 Aug 2009
• Condom provision and education in Minnesota public schools: a telephone survey of parents. 30 Aug 2009
• Telephone case management reduces both distress and psychiatric hospitalization. 30 Aug 2009
• Determining accurate vaccination coverage rates for adolescents: the National Immunization Survey-Teen 2006. 30 Aug 2009
• Breaking bad news over the phone. 30 Aug 2009
• Validity of random-digit-dialing in recruiting controls in a case-control study. 30 Aug 2009
• Late deterioration of neurologic function in patients surgically treated for spinal dural arteriovenous fistulas. 30 Aug 2009
• Monitoring the emergence of community transmission of influenza A/H1N1 2009 in England: a cross sectional opportunistic survey of self sampled telephone callers to NHS Direct. 25 Aug 2009

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Technical information about 'Telephone'

Definition: An instrument for reproducing sounds especially articulate speech at a distance. (Webster, 3rd ed)

Descriptor UI: D013689

Alternative terms: Telephone; Telephones; Switchboard Service; Service, Switchboard; Services, Switchboard; Switchboard Services;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; instrumentation;

Tree Number: L01.178.847.698;

History Note: 74(71)