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| 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
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 17% |
| United States | 1 | 8% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 8% |
| Unknown | 8 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 58% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 42% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 825 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
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 | 800 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 144 | 17% |
| Researcher | 103 | 12% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 82 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 76 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 58 | 7% |
| Other | 176 | 21% |
| Unknown | 186 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 250 | 30% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 81 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 57 | 7% |
| Computer Science | 52 | 6% |
| Psychology | 45 | 5% |
| Other | 106 | 13% |
| Unknown | 234 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2021.
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#1,749,935
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Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,551
of 13,216 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#18,514
of 324,208 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#68
of 226 outputs
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