Mobile phone message reminders vs no reminders: Attendance rate at healthcare appointments
Mobile phone text message reminders probably leads to higher attendance rate at healthcare appointments compared with no reminders (moderate certainty).
What each review found
Current versions only| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Mobile phone text message reminders vs no reminders Attendance rate at healthcare appointments · Patients with healthcare appointments Mobile phone text message reminders probably leads to higher attendance rate at healthcare appointments compared with no reminders (moderate certainty). Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments (2013) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 1.14 [1.03, 1.26] | 7 studies · 5841 participants | Moderate |
Mobile phone text message reminders vs no reminders Attendance rate at healthcare appointments · patients with healthcare appointments Mobile phone text message reminders probably leads to higher attendance rate at healthcare appointments compared with no reminders (moderate certainty). Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments (2012) · Cochrane Headline outcomes onlyearlier version CD007458.PUB2, superseded | RR 1.1 [1.03, 1.17] | 3 studies · 2313 participants | Moderate |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile phone messaging reminders for attendance at healthcare appointments 2013 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.