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follow-up,
1 an act of renewing contact with sources of information and reviewing data needed to reinforce or evaluate a previous action or report, such as reexamination of an earlier diagnosis or prognosis.
2 some further action taken after a procedure is finished, such as contact by a health care agency days or weeks after a patient has undergone treatment.

follow-up,
n the process of monitoring the progress of a patient after a period of active treatment.

follow-up
subsequent.

follow-up plan
plan of action subsequent to the initial procedure, e.g. course of therapy, surgical procedure preventive program.
follow-up studies
ascertaining what happened to a particular patient or group after a significant lapse of time.

follow-up
noun The constellation of future activities–eg return visits, imaging modalities etc, by a Pt after hospitalization or therapy, intended to help in return to a desired state of health verb To ensure that a follow-up has occurred. See Passive followup.


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We report 1-year follow-up data from a longitudinal prospective cohort study of patients with West Nile virus-associated paralysis.
A follow-up examination with CT is suggested to determine recurrence and to rule out simultaneous lesions in different sites of the head and neck, which are known to occur in 10 to 20% of patients.
A follow-up question asked the respondents when they became aware of each provision and whether they knew about it before they made their first work attempt.
 
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