Tips for successful follow-up visits

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Dear members and friends

Some tips for ensuring a successful follow-up visit are:

Schedule appointments realistically, but do not rush participants.

Liaise with colleagues in other departments to ensure that appointment times can be met.

Consider seeing participants for follow-up out of normal working hours, if required.

Consider transport issues, e.g. car parking facilities, bus times, and booking taxis for participants. The informed consent process must make it clear whether participants travelling costs can be reimbursed.

Make sure that participants know how to contact PI or other team members.

If the site allows, have some light refreshments available, especially if fasting blood samples must be taken.

Be sure to establish several possible channels of contact for the subject (e.g. family or a friend at a different address).

Reconfirm appointments close to the booked date.

Thanks

Tarun Wadhwa

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