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SUBMITTER: Kravariti E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6020281 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kravariti Eugenia E Reeve-Mates Christopher C Da Gama Pires Rafaela R Tsakanikos Elias E Hayes Daniel D Renshaw Siobhan S McAllister Sarah S Bhavsar Vishal V Patterson Pam P Daley Emily E Stewart Jane J Pritchard Megan M Shetty Hitesh H Ramsay Rosalind R Perez-Iglesias Rocio R McGuire Philip P
BJPsych open 20180101 1
We report on the first open-label, parallel group randomised controlled trial of automated appointment reminders in a psychosis community service in the UK. Ninety-five patients were randomly allocated to receiving/not receiving automated messaging reminders 7 days and 1 day before appointments. All 'Attended' and 'Missed' appointment outcomes over 6 months were analysed using cluster regression analysis. Reminded appointments were significantly more frequently attended than non-reminded appoint ...[more]