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The strength of the current study is that it includes a relatively large number of postpartum women with a history of GDM, a heretofore unexamined group, with the performance of different diagnostic tests and completion of postpartum data.
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Possibly, specific aspects of our study design have obscured a significant relationship: Accelerometry was performed within a given period of three weeks before or after assessment of HRQoL, while anthropometry, pulmonary function assessment, exercise testing, and completion of activity and quality of life questionnaires were all done on the same day.
The questionnaire covered aspects relating to the patients' socio demographic profile, health seeking behavior, referral for HIV testing, attendance and completion of HIV testing, distance to the ICTC and cost incurred, HIV counseling process, experiences related to stigma and disclosure of HIV results, and their perceptions on being tested for HIV.
Given these results, a patient-oriented decision aid alone may be insufficient to ensure test ordering based on patient preferences or increase test ordering and completion to desired levels; multifaceted interventions that target a combination of providers, patients, or office systems may be more likely to increase screening rates [ 17].
Frequencies and percentages were tabulated for categorical variables in the questionnaires and for test ordering and completion.
Importantly, reducing the length of time required for test setup and completion can also contribute to reduced turnaround times.
In these studies, there was no difference in screening test ordering and completion between those who viewed the decision aid compared to those who did not [ 16].
A second study tested performance and completion rate for the puzzle form compared to the book form in a sample of 164 children with ID.
There was a greater percentage of test ordering and completion among patients choosing green (51%and43%3%, respectively) compared to those choosing yellow or red, but these differences did not reach statistical significance (Table 3).
In contrast to these studies that looked at the effect of a decision aid alone, our previous study using a combined intervention of a videotape decision aid and chart marker was able to increase screening test ordering and completion compared to controls [ 10].
Dietz et al. and Hunt & Conway have both looked at the timing of the test during pregnancy, but found that it neither influenced postpartum test order and test completion [ 46] nor whether the women returned for postpartum screening [ 59].
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