• 1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China;
  • 2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zigong Third People's Hospital, Zigong, 643020, Sichuan, P. R. China;
  • 3. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, 17177, Sweden;
  • 4. State Key Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering, College of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, P. R. China;
  • 5. School of Public Health, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, P. R. China;
  • 6. Department of Thoracic Surgery, National Cancer Center/National Clinical Research Center for Cancer/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100021, P. R. China;
  • 7. Chengdu Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chengdu, 610047, P. R. China;
  • 8. Department of Science and Technology, Sichuan Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Sichuan Cancer Hospital & Institute, Sichuan Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610041, P. R. China;
SHI Qiuling, Email: qshi@cqmu.edu.cn; LI Qiang, Email: liqiang@sichuancancer.org
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Telephone follow-up is one of the important ways to follow up patients. High-quality follow-up can benefit both doctors and patients. However, clinical research-related follow-up is often faced with problems such as time-consuming, laborious and poor patient compliance. The authors belong to a team that has been committed to the study of patient-reported outcomes for a long time. The team has carried out long-term follow-up of symptoms, daily function and postoperative complications of more than 1 000 patients after lung cancer surgery, and accumulated certain experience. In this paper, the experience of telephone follow-up was summarized and discussed with relevant literatures from the aspects of clarifying the purpose of clinical research follow-up, understanding the needs of patients in follow-up, and using follow-up skills.

Citation: WEI Xing, ZHANG Qi, GAO Xin, LIU Wenwu, LIU Yangjun, DAI Wei, HU Peihong, WANG Yaqin, LIAO Jia, YU Hongfan, GONG Ruoyan, YANG Ding, XU Wei, PU Yang, YU Qingsong, YANG Yuanyuan, SHI Qiuling, LI Qiang. Method exploration of telephone follow-up in clinical research. Chinese Journal of Clinical Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2023, 30(9): 1235-1239. doi: 10.7507/1007-4848.202211002 Copy

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