1A continuation or repetition of something that has already been started or done.

1. 1.1 An activity carried out as part of a study in order to monitor or further develop earlier work.
   追踪调查
   as modifier follow-up interviews

   后续采访。

2. 1.2 Further observation or treatment of a patient, especially to monitor earlier treatment.
   （对病人的）随访
   patients who require proper medical follow-up

   需要适当随访的病人。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • In addition, the number of reprimands decreased during both treatment and follow-up observations.
   • The patient was referred to our medical center for further follow-up and possible surgery.
   • Inmates are regularly being released on completing their terms without any provision of medical follow-up or treatment.
   • It will cover the costs of accident and emergency treatment and follow-up medical care.
   • And they often get lost to medical follow-up because they don't need medical follow-up.
   • Seven patients underwent follow-up testing after 3 months of bosentan treatment.
   • Early withdrawal from the assigned treatment or loss of follow-up occurred in 29 patients.
   • She said it was a follow-up to his visit for the back spasms.
   • On her return to Ireland she needed follow-up medical treatment and had to tell her doctor and the hospital that she had miscarried.
   • Children and adults with PKU require follow-up care at a medical center or clinic that specializes in this disorder.
   • Patients with melanoma require close follow-up because they are at risk for recurrence and diagnosis of a second primary tumor.
   • The long-term medical follow-up of veterans with embedded DU fragments is in progress and will continue.
   • The patients had follow-up visits four to six weeks after treatment and again at three, six, nine and 12 months.
   • Some patients who have had meningitis may require longer-term follow-up.
   • In patients who completed treatment and follow-up, no differences were observed in maternal or fetal outcomes.
   • Some patients return for follow-up treatment every three months or at six months where they repeat the complete protocol.
   • Medical records were reviewed and patients were contacted for follow-up.
   • At-home transition to methadone can be safe even in older patients if follow-up is closely monitored.
   • Patients should be able to participate in treatment and long-term follow-up.
   • The prevention of illness associated with recurrence depends on careful follow-up of patients after treatment.
   • A total of 11,295 patients received follow-up during the three observation periods.

   Synonyms

   result, end result, consequence, net result, upshot, effect, after-effect, aftermath, conclusion, sequel, issue, product, end product, end, development, offshoot, outgrowth, wake, denouement
3. 1.3 A piece of work that builds on or exploits the success of earlier work.
   续篇
   she is writing a follow-up to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

   她正在续写简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • After this current tour, Jason will embark on an exciting new TV project as a follow-up to his recent BBC2 hit show Jason Byrne Hates.
   • As a follow-up to the IMDb records post a few days ago, who has the earliest birth date listed on IMDb?
   • A follow-up to his debut play The Land Of Cakes, premiered here last year, the new piece is based on his BBC radio series The Aberdee Brief.
   • The Guardian printed a follow-up to the story I linked to last week about the mysterious underground cinema in Paris.
   • It isn't that the album Everyone Is Here is a follow-up to Finn, which the brothers recorded 10 years ago.
   • This is a complete cookbook, a follow-up to his very successful book about the ultimate weight loss.
   • It's terribly easy to criticise a follow-up to a massive success but I can only be honest and say that it hardly made me laugh at all.
   • We'll post a follow-up to this intriguing story as soon as we get the straight dope.
   • This article may be considered a follow-up to Lee's article.
   • They are also planning a follow-up to their successful and widely-publicised street hockey protest on Commercial Drive.
   • The first, a double CD, teams two of the great jazz vocalists in a follow-up to their first successful get-together.
   • If anything, it might be something with Luc Besson, a follow-up to a film I did when I was younger called Leon.
   • He's also planning to get back in the studio this fall for a follow-up to the well-received Here on Earth recording from a couple of years ago.
   • He is launching a new show, Twelfth Night: the Musical, at the Edinburgh Festival, as a follow-up to Zipp!
   • He is doing a follow-up to the fantastic television musical Feltham Sings, for which he worked with juvenile offenders.
   • It's a follow-up to a film called That'll Be the Day that David Essex starred in.
   • The Take Me Out singers are to begin recording their second album in March as a follow-up to their eponymous debut.
   • It's a follow-up to last year's Gemini Award-winning The Atwood Stories.
   • As a follow-up to the epic post on the graveyard of ideologies, here is a story about the graveyards of ideologists.
   • The show was a follow-up to the launch of her debut album ‘Wini’ which has proven very popular over the past few months.