Implementing a Reminder System in the Northern Part of Belgium to Stimulate Postpartum Screening for Glucose Intolerance in Women with Gestational Diabetes: The “Sweet Pregnancy” Project

Table 2

An overview of the number of responders and screening tests of all registrants who received a yearly reminder during 5 consecutive years.

	Follow-up; year 1	Follow-up; year 2	Follow-up; year 3	Follow-up; year 4	Follow-up; year 5
Number of women who received a follow-up letter	1370	1202	1273	1221	1157
Number of responders (%)	1128 (82.3%)	913 (76.0%)	848 (66.6%)	737 (60.4%)	686 (59.3%)
Number of responders who received a screening test (%)	748 (66.3%)	586 (64.2%)	575 (67.8%)	524 (71.1%)	489 (71.3%)

The number of responders is the number of registrants who returned a response sheet. The number of responders who received a screening test is the number of responders who have indicated that they received a screening test in primary care in the past year.