Intervention Protocol

Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments

  1. Josip Car1,*,
  2. Ipek Gurol-Urganci2,
  3. Thyra de Jongh2,
  4. Vlasta Vodopivec-Jamsek3,
  5. Rifat Atun2

Editorial Group: Cochrane Consumers and Communication Group

Published Online: 8 OCT 2008

DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007458

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Car J, Gurol-Urganci I, de Jongh T, Vodopivec-Jamsek V, Atun R. Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments (Protocol). Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 4. Art. No.: CD007458. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007458.

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  1. 1

    Imperial College London, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, London, UK

  2. 2

    Imperial College London, Tanaka Business School, London, UK

  3. 3

    University of Ljubljana-Medical Faculty, Department of Family Medicine, Ljubljana, Slovenia

*Josip Car, Department of Primary Care and Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, Reynolds Building, St Dunstan's Road, London, W6 8RP, UK. josip.car@imperial.ac.uk.

Publication History

  1. Publication Status: New
  2. Published Online: 8 OCT 2008

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This is the protocol for a review and there is no abstract. The objectives are as follows:

To assess the effects of mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled healthcare appointments on outcomes including understanding and appointment attendance by the patient. Secondary objectives include assessment of acceptability, patient and clinician satisfaction, safety and costs of mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at scheduled appointments.

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