Telephone calls; clinic visits; and home visit attempts and
results were recorded on individual forms by name, date,
number of school day, school, grade, absence rate to date,
absence reason; and medical diagnosis (with ICD-9 code).
These data were stored in the school system’s ‘‘Connect to
School’’ virtual password-protected website. During the
90-day intervention, identifying information was retained
but deleted when loaded into Statistical Analysis Software
for the analysis phase of this project.