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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, July 2012
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (97th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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5 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
14 tweeters

Citations

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101 Mendeley

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Title
Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, July 2012
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd007458.pub2
Pubmed ID
22786507
Authors

Car J, Gurol-Urganci I, de Jongh T, Vodopivec-Jamsek V, Atun R

Abstract

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, and reminders may help alleviate this problem. 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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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 3%
United Kingdom 2 2%
South Africa 2 2%
Canada 1 <1%
Ireland 1 <1%
Sweden 1 <1%
New Zealand 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 88 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 22 22%
Student > Master 18 18%
Student > Ph. D. Student 13 13%
Student > Postgraduate 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 8%
Other 24 24%
Unknown 8 8%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 34 34%
Computer Science 15 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 12%
Social Sciences 10 10%
Psychology 5 5%
Other 12 12%
Unknown 13 13%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. 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 26 November 2018.
All research outputs
#497,892
of 17,356,510 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,169
of 11,661 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,838
of 133,150 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#9
of 109 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 17,356,510 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 11,661 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 25.0. This one has done well, scoring higher than 89% of its peers.
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