Table 3.

Dietetic, diabetes educator and obstetric physician appointments, before and after changing a GDM model of care

Appointments	Total			Diagnosis from 24 weeks
	Pre-Intervention (n = 125)	Post-Intervention (n = 119)	P	Pre-Intervention (n = 115)	Post-Intervention (n = 94)	P
Dietitian, number of appointments, mean (SD)	2.4 (0.8)	3.8 (1.7)	< 0.001	2.4 (0.8)	3.7 (1.4)	< 0.001
Adherence to dietetic schedule of appointments, n (%)	36 (29%)	98 (82%)	< 0.001	33 (29%)	79 (84%)	< 0.001
Obstetric Physician, number of appointments, mean (SD)	1.9 (2.5)	2.5 (2.8)	0.08	1.8 (2.3)	2.3 (2.4)	0.11
Diabetes Educator, number of appointments, mean (SD)	3.1 (2.0)	2.6 (2.6)	0.10	3.0 (1.4)	2.3 (2.0)	0.007
Total appointments, mean (SD)	7.4 (4.3)	8.9 (5.1)	0.01	7.1 (3.6)	8.3 (3.9)	0.02

GDM Gestational diabetes mellitus; SD Standard deviation