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| Title |
Effectiveness of mobile-phone short message service (SMS) reminders for ophthalmology outpatient appointments: Observational study
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ophthalmology, May 2008
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2415-8-9 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Elizabeth Koshy, Josip Car, Azeem Majeed |
| Abstract |
Non-attendance for hospital outpatient appointments is a significant problem in many countries. It causes suboptimal use of clinical and administrative staff and financial losses, as well as longer waiting times. The use of Short Message Service (SMS) appointment reminders potentially offers a cost-effective and time-efficient strategy to decrease non-attendance and so improve the efficiency of outpatient healthcare delivery. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 55% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 4 | 36% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 55% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 4 | 36% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 230 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 2% |
| Indonesia | 1 | <1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 216 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 43 | 19% |
| Researcher | 39 | 17% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 24 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 20 | 9% |
| Other | 52 | 23% |
| Unknown | 28 | 12% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 87 | 38% |
| Social Sciences | 28 | 12% |
| Computer Science | 25 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 16 | 7% |
| Psychology | 12 | 5% |
| Other | 29 | 13% |
| Unknown | 33 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. 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 30 October 2013.
All research outputs
#3,747,866
of 25,364,653 outputs
Outputs from BMC Ophthalmology
#206
of 2,684 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#11,372
of 94,002 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Ophthalmology
#1
of 2 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,364,653 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 85th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,684 research outputs from this source. They receive a mean Attention Score of 2.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 92% of its peers.
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