Early experience of the use of short message service (SMS) technology in routine clinical care

Informatics in Primary Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 203-211

  Neville, Ron G ^a,b   Reed, Chris ^c   Boswell, Brian ^d   Sergeant, Paul ^d   Sullivan, Tricia ^e   Sullivan, Frank M ^c  

^a Westgate Health Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^d Freelance Qualitative Researcher ^*

^e Freelance Qualitative Researcher   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

General practice; Mobile phone; Short message service

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; UNITED KINGDOM;

CELLULAR PHONE; COMMUNICATION; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 60549102343     PISSN: 14760320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14236/jhi.v16i3.695     Document Type: Article

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