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Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (94th percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (67th percentile)

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Title
Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, December 2013
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd007458.pub3
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Authors

Ipek Gurol‐Urganci, Thyra de Jongh, Vlasta Vodopivec‐Jamsek, Rifat Atun, Josip Car

Abstract

This review is an update of the original Cochrane review published in July 2012. Missed appointments are a major cause of inefficiency in healthcare delivery with substantial monetary costs for the health system, leading to delays in diagnosis and appropriate treatment. Patients' forgetfulness is one of the main reasons for missed appointments. Patient reminders may help reduce missed appointments. Modes of communicating reminders for appointments to patients include face-to-face communication, postal messages, calls to landlines or mobile phones, and mobile phone messaging. Mobile phone messaging applications, such as Short Message Service (SMS) and Multimedia Message Service (MMS), could provide an important, inexpensive delivery medium for reminders for healthcare appointments.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 8 <1%
United Kingdom 6 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Ghana 1 <1%
Kenya 1 <1%
Mozambique 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
Malaysia 1 <1%
Other 2 <1%
Unknown 798 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 142 17%
Researcher 104 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 82 10%
Student > Bachelor 76 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 58 7%
Other 182 22%
Unknown 179 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 251 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 77 9%
Social Sciences 58 7%
Computer Science 51 6%
Psychology 46 6%
Other 113 14%
Unknown 227 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 August 2021.
All research outputs
#1,574,109
of 25,457,297 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#3,348
of 11,499 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#17,079
of 320,612 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#68
of 207 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,457,297 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 93rd percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,499 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 40.0. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 71% of its peers.
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