M oday, M arch 7, 2017 RESULTS: Patients that were sent reminders were up to 5-times more likely to ask their provider regarding their testresults than Controls; 15/29 patients in Group-A ‘asked’ compared to only 2/33 controls (p<0.001). Conversely 31/33 controls ‘did-not-ask’; 24/29 Group-A patients indicated that the reminders were helpful (in-fact 25 patients felt reminders were ‘necessary’)...

Point of care reminders have been shown to be effective in changing ordering behavior in primary care settings, but electronic reminders in the emergency department have not been studied. We retrospectively evaluated a computerized system designed to prompt syphilis testing in an emergency department during an outbreak. Most individual reminders were not followed by a test. However, there was a...

OBJECTIVE Several studies have demonstrated that cellular phone short message service (SMS) improve antiretroviral adherence for people living with HIV in Africa, although less data are available to support using SMS reminders to improve timeliness of antiretroviral therapy (ART) pharmacy pick up. This study tested the efficacy of SMS reminders on timeliness of ART pharmacy pickups at an urban ...

context medication non-adherence is a commonly observed problem in the self-administration of treatment, regardless of the disease type. text messaging reminders, as electronic reminders, provide an opportunity to improve medication adherence. in this study, we aimed to provide evidence addressing the question of whether text message reminders were effective in improving patients’ adherence to ...

Although location-based reminder applications have been widely prototyped, there are few results regarding their impact on people: how are they used, do they change peoples' behavior, and what features most influence usefulness. Cell phones provide a compelling platform for the delivery of location-based reminders within a user's everyday natural context. We present requirements for location-ba...

BACKGROUND Ischemic heart disease (IHD) affects at least 150,000 veterans annually in the United States. Lowering serum cholesterol has been shown to reduce coronary events, cardiac death, and total mortality among high risk patients. Electronic clinical reminders available at the point of care delivery have been developed to improve lipid measurement and management in the Veterans Health Admin...

BACKGROUND Longitudinal, patient-centered care represents a challenge for general practitioners (GPs), and in this context, reminder systems can offer targeted support. This study aimed to identify details of such reminders: (1) contents of care addressed, (2) their mode of display in the electronic health record (EHR), (3) their visual appearance, (4) personnel responsibilities for editing and...

Preventive care measures remain underutilized despite recommendations to increase their use. The objective of this review was to examine the characteristics, types, and effects of paper- and computer-based interventions for preventive care measures. The study provides an update to a previous systematic review. We included randomized controlled trials that implemented a physician reminder and me...