Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Use of text message reminders to help promote delivery of a second dose of ...

Many busy people rely upon a reminder system to ensure that important tasks or appointments don’t get overlooked. These reminders take lots of different forms, whether it’s a post-it note stuck to the ...

Text message reminders don’t increase flu vaccinations in pregnant women, according to a small pilot study. “Text messaging may be effective in some contexts and not in others,” lead study author Dr.

Researchers studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus. The findings showed that sending ...

Text message reminders may improve vaccine adherence As more children live in wireless-only homes, text message services have the potential to be effective immunization reminder tools. BOSTON – A six ...

BOSTON – A six month quality improvement project using personalized text message reminders to prompt patients about upcoming vaccinations demonstrated initial improvements in vaccine adherence at a ...

Sending a text message reminder to participants about their upcoming fecal immunochemical test improved previously poor adherence rates for colorectal cancer screening. Participants who received a ...