Text4health: Impact of text message reminder-recalls for pediatric and adolescent immunizations

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Stockwell, Melissa S ^a   Kharbanda, Elyse Olshen ^a   Martinez, Raquel Andres ^a   Lara, Marcos ^a   Vawdrey, David ^a   Natarajan, Karthik ^a   Rickert, Vaughn I ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINE; MENINGOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; PARENT; POVERTY; RACE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS; TEXT MESSAGING; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-ACELLULAR PERTUSSIS VACCINES; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS VACCINES; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL VACCINES; PARENTS; POVERTY; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TEXT MESSAGING; URBAN POPULATION; VACCINATION;

EID: 84857247406     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300331     Document Type: Article

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