Primary care and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) diagnosis
| Question | n (%) |
|---|---|
| How do you usually find out that a woman has GDM? (n = 915) | |
| A letter from the hospital | 718(78.5) |
| From the maternity notes | 354 (38.7) |
| The patient informs me | 352 (38.5) |
| Other | 198(21.6) |
| Don't know | 15(1.6) |
| In your experience, have you had difficulties finding out that your patients have gestational diabetes? (n = <900) | |
| Yes | 167(18.6) |
| No | 733 (81.4) |
| What are these difficulties due to? (n = 167) | |
| Lack of communication from the hospital | 143(85.6) |
| The patient doesn't inform you | 61 (36.5) |
| The glucose tolerance test is not done at the practice | 62(37.1) |
| Other | 18(10.8) |
| Don't know | 6 (3.6) |