This study had two aims: to measure patient preferences for medical appointment reminder systems and to assess the predictive value of patient usage and familiarity with other service providers contacting them on responsiveness to appointment reminder systems. We used a cross-sectional design wherein patients' at an urban, primary-care clinic ranked various reminder systems and indicated their ...

INTRODUCTION Non-attendance is a global health-care problem. The aim of the present study was 1) to investigate if a telephone reminder could reduce the non-attendance rate, 2) to study reasons for non-attendance and 3) to evaluate if a permanent implementation would be economically advantageous in a gastroenterology outpatient clinic like ours. METHODS This was a comparative intervention stu...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a single telephone call reminder on appointment compliance among adolescents in an inner city, hospital-based clinic. METHODS A randomized clinical trial was conducted at the Adolescent Clinic, a part of the Ambulatory Pediatric Practice Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, from December 1995 to November 1996. A total of 703 routine adolescent ambulatory appointment...

In the present paper, we study some properties of fuzzy norm of linear operators. At first the bounded inverse theorem on fuzzy normed linear spaces is investigated. Then, we prove Hahn Banach theorem, uniform boundedness theorem and closed graph theorem on fuzzy normed linear spaces. Finally the set of all compact operators on these spaces is studied.

The Group Health Cooperative trial9 showed that telephone interventions were more effective than reminder cards in encouraging mammography among women older than 50 years of age. About 50% of women who received calls had mammography compared with about 35% of those who received the reminder card. As shown in Table 1, these results are consistent with those of other randomized trials involving t...

AIMS To examine the use of a cue-reminder to target alcohol use among youth in social contexts. METHODS Two experiments were conducted. First, among 92 late adolescents, we tested if a cue-reminder could be effectively associated with information about empowerment, awareness and monitoring of one's own limits with regard to alcohol use. Second, among 107 young adults, the effect of the cue in...

BACKGROUND Oral contraceptives (OCs) are the most widely used contraceptive method among women of reproductive age in the United States (US). Routine download and use of health-related smartphone applications (apps) continues to increase. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of English-language, smartphone-platform OC reminder apps currently available for download i...