During the 2000s, rapid adoption of cellular phones and foregoing of landline telephones (i.e., wireless substitution) were observed (1–3). This affected behavioral surveillance by creating a staggering decrease in coverage for surveys that relied on random-digit dialing (RDD) sampling, resulting in biased health estimates (1–5). During this time, innovative sampling approaches that integrated ...

one of the most important challenges for researchers is deciding on how to collect their data. there are various views on using telephone interviews. conducting telephone interviews on women of 40 years old and older in isfahan about mammography screening behavior showed that it could be an appropriate method for data collection when there is a combination of effective communication process and...

Background: Providing community-based mental health services is crucial and is an agreed plan between the Iranian Mental Health Office and the Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean (affiliated with WHO). The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of home-visit clinical case-management services on the hospitalization rate and other clinical outcomes in patients with seve...

We present a Web-based management Tool for Health Care Services with appointment required. This tool lets patients request appointments with doctors and specialists via the Internet. It changes the previous situation where the only way to get an appointment was via a telephone call. Now, with the new system, it is possible to use a desktop computer or a WAPenabled cellular phone to request appo...

This study explored the diversity of emergency code telephone numbers currently in use in Australian hospitals and examined the feasibility of a standard emergency code telephone number for all Australian hospitals, based on the United Kingdom experience. An email and telephone convenience survey of Australian hospitals from six states and two territories was conducted. Of the 108 hospitals sur...

With cellular phones mass-market consumer items, the next frontier is mobile multimedia communications. This situation raises the question of how to do power control for information sources other than voice. To explore this issue, we use the concepts and mathematics of microeconomics and game theory. In this context, the Quality of Service of a telephone call is referred to as the "utility" and...

Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions are subscriptions to a public mobile telephone service using cellular technology, which provide access to the public switched telephone network [1]. Nowadays, mobile phone handhelds are everywhere and are used for various applications. Convergence of media provides a great opportunity for mobile users. Yet, there has been a growing rate of challenges acco...

With the remarkable evolution of telecommunications as we reach the end of this century, it becomes clear that speech recognition via the telephone network will play an increasingly important role, mainly due to the widespread use of both cellular and non-cellular telephones. For many applications of speech recognition over the telephone, digit recognition is fundamental. This paper describes a...

This paper presents a computer application that helps people with hearing or speech difficulties to use a telephone. The TSAD (telephone system aid for the deaf) is a system aimed at providing such individuals with a telephone solution. The objective is far from obliterating the existing options, but rather to compliment on the up take for those instances when the telephone becomes the most app...