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Email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2012
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Title
Email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, August 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd007981.pub2
Pubmed ID
Authors

Helen Atherton, Prescilla Sawmynaden, Barbara Meyer, Josip Car

Abstract

Email is a popular and commonly-used method of communication, but its use in health care is not routine. Where email communication has been utilised in health care, its purposes have included the coordination of healthcare appointments and attendance reminders, but the effects of using email in this way are not known. This review considers the use of email for the coordination of healthcare appointments and reminders for attendance; particularly scheduling, rescheduling and cancelling healthcare appointments, and providing prompts/reminders for attendance at appointments.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 3%
United Kingdom 2 1%
Italy 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Unknown 139 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 27 18%
Researcher 21 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 9%
Student > Bachelor 11 7%
Other 10 7%
Other 30 20%
Unknown 36 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 43 29%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 11%
Psychology 12 8%
Social Sciences 10 7%
Computer Science 9 6%
Other 14 9%
Unknown 44 30%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. 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 19 October 2012.
All research outputs
#7,415,394
of 22,673,450 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#8,927
of 12,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#55,437
of 167,579 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#140
of 207 outputs
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