BACKGROUND People with active tuberculosis (TB) require six months of treatment. Some people find it difficult to complete treatment, and there are several approaches to help ensure completion. One such system relies on reminders, where the health system prompts patients to attend for appointments on time, or re-engages people who have missed or defaulted on a scheduled appointment. OBJECTIVE...

conclusions our results validate that telephonic confirmation of clinic appointment plays a significant role in reducing the nar in paediatric out-patient clinic setting. patients and methods nar was reviewed for 6 months (february-july 2013) and compared with the nar for similar duration in 2014 (before and after implementation of telephone reminders). within 2014 data, comparison was also mad...

In this paper, we report on the use of multiple platforms to circumvent challenges associated with non-attendance because limited accessibility conventional video conferencing digital tools such as Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) and Blackboard collaborate. One hundred sixty-five participating pre-service teachers were given autonomy connect using any from a prescribed list that worked for them. The...

Thousands of North American clinicians have trained for the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention, yet there are no benchmark data for that continent. This retrospective file audit includes logistical regression of variables from files of 134 children younger than 6 years who completed Stage 1 of the Lidcombe Program. Benchmarking data for clinic visits to Stage 2 is available for t...

Introduction. Several studies have shown that the effective educational attendance of faculty members have been substantially decreased. This is due to many different factors. Lack of a comprehensive analysis of this issue has led the university managers to implement ineffective, arbitrary strategies to force the faculty members to increase their attendance in the educational activities. In ord...