The following are examples of active follow-up except:

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The following are examples of active follow-up except:

Active follow-up involves proactively obtaining outcome information by reaching out to patients or their healthcare providers, rather than waiting for information to appear in routine records. When you send physician letters, you’re actively soliciting status updates from clinicians, and patient letters do the same by asking the patient directly for the latest information. The Social Security Death Index, by contrast, is a registry you consult to determine whether a patient has died; it does not require you to actively obtain new information, so it is a passive data source rather than active follow-up. Therefore, it is the exception.

Active follow-up involves proactively obtaining outcome information by reaching out to patients or their healthcare providers, rather than waiting for information to appear in routine records. When you send physician letters, you’re actively soliciting status updates from clinicians, and patient letters do the same by asking the patient directly for the latest information. The Social Security Death Index, by contrast, is a registry you consult to determine whether a patient has died; it does not require you to actively obtain new information, so it is a passive data source rather than active follow-up. Therefore, it is the exception.

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