€ It's all in the message': The utility of personalised short message service (SMS) texts to remind patients at higher risk of STIs and HIV to reattend for testing-a repeat before and after study

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 92, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 393-395

  Nyatsanza, Farai ^a   McSorley, John ^a   Murphy, Siobhan ^a   Brook, Gary ^a  

^a EALING HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDIA; COMMERCIAL SEX WORKER; CONCURRENT SEXUAL PARTNERSHIP; CONTACT INFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; E-MAIL; EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION; FEMALE; GENITAL HERPES; GONORRHEA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH MEN; MOLLUSCUM CONTAGIOSUM; OUTPATIENT CARE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTITUTION; REATTENDANCE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SYPHILIS; TEXT MESSAGING; TRICHOMONIASIS; URETHRITIS; VERRUCA VULGARIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MASS SCREENING; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REMINDER SYSTEM; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; UTILIZATION;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; ELECTRONIC MAIL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84982921540     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2015-052216     Document Type: Article

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