Text Reminders in Colorectal Cancer Screening (TRICCS): Protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BMC Public Health

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Hirst, Yasemin ^a   Kerrison, Robert ^a   Kobayashi, Lindsay C ^a   Counsell, Nicholas ^a   Djedovic, Natasha ^b   Ruwende, Josephine ^c   Stewart, Mark ^b   Von Wagner, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST MARK S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Colorectal cancer screening; Faecal occult blood test; London; Mobile health; Text message

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY CANCER DIAGNOSIS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; MOBILE PHONE; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OCCULT BLOOD; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TEXT MESSAGING;

ADULT; AGED; CELL PHONES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; OCCULT BLOOD; REMINDER SYSTEMS; STATE MEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84955310497     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-016-2733-6     Document Type: Article

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