Health Care Activity
follow-up Audio
fol·low·up
Definitions related to follow-up:
  • Monitoring a person's health over time after treatment. This includes keeping track of the health of people who participate in a clinical study or clinical trial for a period of time, both during the study and after the study ends.
    NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • The process by which information about the health status of an individual is obtained after a study has officially closed; an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done.
    NCI
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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