Latinos had the highest rates of completion, at 63 percent, followed by Asians, at 61 percent.
Expressing some of the items in a spoken language format also enhanced acceptability and a higher rate of completion.
Several studies have also reported a significantly higher rate of completion of LTBI treatment among those high school students receiving directly observed therapy (24, 25 ).
This very high rate of completion might be partly attributable to the administration process of the survey and to the setting in which the survey took place.
[ 66] [ 66] As expected, there was a higher rate of completion for the intervention compared to usual care within the COACH study (46%% vs 20%%).
Although it seems natural that chemoradiotherapy is more effective than radiotherapy or chemotherapy alone because of their synergistic and/or additive effects, the high rate of completion of the regimen because of less toxicities of CDGP and the high local control rate might have contributed to the better results in our study than those in previous studies on chemoradiotherapy.
Receptionists providing paper-copies to patients appeared to evoke a relatively higher rate of completion compared to the health professionals administering the GPPAQs, either using paper-copies or electronic formats, because the visual stimulus of the patient walking into the consultation with the questionnaire appeared to trigger the health professional to complete it.
For other variables, a significantly higher rate of completion in the re-abstracted database suggests the information is available in the chart, but may not be documented in the recommended chart location that is typically reviewed by facility abstractors (e.g., height, weight).
It has also risen among young whites, blacks and Hispanics, though relatively little among Asians, who already had the highest rate of college completion.
They take less time to complete, are less burdensome for patients, and have higher rates of completion and return.
