BACKGROUND Telephone or text-message reminders have been shown to significantly reduce the rate of missed appointments in different medical settings. Since text-messaging is less resource-demanding, we tested the hypothesis that text-message reminders would be as effective as telephone reminders in an academic primary care clinic. METHODS A randomized controlled non-inferiority trial was cond...

Methods Using existing well-accepted evidence-based national clinical guidelines, a multidisciplinary team created 16 specific reminders within 4 clinical categories: (1) diabetes care (eye exams, HbA1C and cholesterol studies, nursing education visits); (2) therapeutic recommendations (ACE-inhibitor (ACEI) use in diabetic hypertensives; aspirin, beta-blocker, and statin use in patients with co...

OBJECTIVE Little evidence exists on effective interventions to integrate HIV-care guidelines into practices within developing countries. This study tested the hypothesis that clinical summaries with computer-generated reminders could improve clinicians' compliance with CD4 testing guidelines in the resource-limited setting of sub-Saharan Africa. DESIGN A prospective comparative study of two r...

BACKGROUND Cell phone text messaging, via the Short Messaging Service (SMS), offers the promise of a highly portable, well-accepted, and inexpensive modality for engaging youth and young adults in the management of their diabetes. This pilot and feasibility study compared two-way SMS cell phone messaging with e-mail reminders that were directed at encouraging blood glucose (BG) monitoring. ME...

Background Despite progress in vaccination coverage, timeliness of childhood remains a challenge many settings. We aimed to assess if mobile phone-based reminders and incentives health workers caregivers could increase timely neonatal rural, low-resource setting. Methods conducted an open-label cluster randomized controlled 1:1:1 trial with three arms 15 communities Northern Ghana. Communities ...

This article examines the effectiveness of using different kinds of written reminders to reduce misdemeanor defendants’ failure-to-appear (FTA) rates. A subset of defendants was surveyed after their scheduled court date to assess their perceptions of procedural justice and trust and confidence in the courts. Reminders reduced FTA overall, and more substantive reminders (e.g., with information o...

Actionable reminders (electronic reminders linked to computerized order entry) might improve care by facilitating direct ordering of recommended tests. The authors implemented four enhanced actionable reminders targeting performance of annual mammography, one-time bone-density screening, and diabetic testing. There was no difference in rates of appropriate testing between the four intervention ...

In this paper, we present initial outcomes from our multi-method study that explored the impact of reminders on effectiveness of information systems that aim to facilitate behaviour change. Our study explicitly focused on reminders as a key persuasive software feature that should be employed to support behaviour change. We designed a prototype aiming to encourage people to gradually reduce soda...