The report raised concerns about the safety of restraining holds used by guards on deportees, guards' open use of racist language, the quality of information given to guards about deportees' health, and the excessive number of guards per deportee.
In order to evaluate the impact of using DAM on the quality of information given in the economic portions of the HTAs, we compared medical and economic assessments of each report in the sample and analysed the difference between their levels of informativeness.
We also investigated the quality of information given on prescriptions, and gathered information from indications.
Problems have been identified with the quality of information given [ 4].
However, the novel service group was less satisfied than other groups of women with the amount and quality of information given.
42 (11.8%) and 50 (14.1%) participants, respectively, rather disagreed that the quality of information given by the physician was good with respect to completeness and comprehensibility.
Sherr et al. have underscored the importance of the quality of information given to pregnant women in antenatal clinics and that of a proper process of obtaining informed consent [ 14].
It is entirely possible that the quality of information given was in excess of that recorded in the case notes and that our data simply reflect poor note keeping.
There was also a trend association between the quality of information given by medical professional and negative outcome (47% of the subgroup not given a clear account, had negative outcome vs 36% of the subgroup given a clear account; χ=4.5, p=0.10).
However, women at 'low' risk of breast cancer gave significantly lower mean scores for the affective (listening, understanding and interest of health staff) and cognitive (amount and quality of information given), but not the behavioural (competence of health staff) components of the satisfaction questionnaire (P<0.05, Mann Whitney test).
