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- Title
Finding Orthopedic Patients Lost to Follow-up for Long-term Outcomes Research Using the Internet: An Update for 2012.
- Authors
Louie, Dexter L.; Earp, Brandon E.; Blazar, Philip E.
- Abstract
The Internet is available to researchers as a tool for studying long-term outcomes, but no recent research exists on how to best use it. The authors hypothesize that using the Internet can be at least 75% effective in locating patients lost to follow-up. With Institutional Review Board approval, the authors searched for 66 patients lost to follow-up after a period of 10 years or more with no contact. They tested an Internet searching protocol developed in 2004 and developed an alternate protocol. In all, 74% (49/66) of patients were located.
- Publication
Orthopedics, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 7, p595
- ISSN
0147-7447
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3928/01477447-20120621-06