Title: Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments (Review)

Authors: Car, J.

Place: [Chichester]

Publisher: Wiley

Year: 2012

Journal: The Cochrane library

Volume: 7

PAGE: --

Subject: mHealth in Low-Resource Settings

Keywords: health care delivery, health services, mobile telecommunication services, therapeutics, africa

Abstract: Failure to attend healthcare appointments has a significant impact not only on the health of the patients but also on health system costs. This review studied whether sending patients appointment reminders using mobile phone text and multimedia messaging (SMS and MMS) could improve attendance.

URL: https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007458.pub3/media/CDSR/CD007458/CD007458_standard.pdf

Document type: E-article