| Title |
Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
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| DOI | 10.1002/14651858.cd007458.pub3 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ipek Gurol-Urganci, Thyra de Jongh, Vlasta Vodopivec-Jamsek, Rifat Atun, Josip Car |
| Abstract |
This review is an update of the original Cochrane review published in July 2012. Missed appointments are a major cause of inefficiency in healthcare delivery with substantial monetary costs for the health system, leading to delays in diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Patients' forgetfulness is one of the main reasons for missed appointments. Patient reminders may help reduce missed appointments. Modes of communicating reminders for appointments to patients include face-to-face communication, postal messages, calls to landlines or mobile phones, and mobile phone messaging. Mobile phone messaging applications, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS), could provide an important, inexpensive delivery medium for reminders for healthcare appointments. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Australia | 2 | 13% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Chile | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 44% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 10 | 63% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 31% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 8 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 6 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Italy | 2 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Kenya | 1 | <1% |
| Mozambique | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 2 | <1% |
| Unknown | 773 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 143 | 18% |
| Researcher | 101 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 81 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 73 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 56 | 7% |
| Other | 174 | 22% |
| Unknown | 170 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 248 | 31% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 75 | 9% |
| Social Sciences | 58 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 51 | 6% |
| Psychology | 45 | 6% |
| Other | 103 | 13% |
| Unknown | 218 | 27% |
Attention Score in Context
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#16,210
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Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#64
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