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In the case of patients' relatives, the most significant follow-up problem was due to a failure to return data collection forms within the protocol timeframe (n=29, 36%).
39 Reasons for low follow-up in this study were multifactorial, but key reasons included patients being discharged from hospital earlier than anticipated and relatives failing to return data collection forms.
The overall return rate of the data collection form from healthcare providers was 84%.
Eight of the 10 physicians and registrars in the control group returned the completed data collection forms for all three sample cases for the first and the second data extractions.
If a completed data collection form was not returned, up to three reminders were sent.
Data were collected on a standard data collection form (see Additional file 1) and this was returned to the study co-ordinating centre for entry into the study database.
A 'test-impact' data collection form was attached to each typing result returned (see Additional file 1).
When a clinician returned a card indicating a case we then sent a condition specific data collection form asking for details to confirm that the woman met the appropriate case definition.
Patient data were collected retrospectively using a pre-printed data collection form from their medical records.
The collected information was reported on a data collection form.
The patients sealed both the data collection form and the self-administered questionnaire in an anonymous envelope to return to the research team.
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