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Capsule Commentary of Shah et al., Targeted Reminder Phone Calls to Patients at High Risk to No-Show for Primary Care Appointment: A Randomized Trial

verfasst von: Hyo Jung Tak, PhD

Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Ausgabe 12/2016

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This randomized controlled trial of a telephone intervention in a hospital-based primary care clinic found that a reminder phone call reduced the no-show rate.1 This is timely and important because empirical evidence suggests that expanded health insurance coverage would potentially increase appointment wait time because of constraints on medical capacity, raising concern regarding efficient appointment coordination in health care services. For example, the average appointment wait time to see an internist increased from 33 days to 52 days when health care reform was initially implemented in Massachusetts.2 …

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Titel: Capsule Commentary of Shah et al., Targeted Reminder Phone Calls to Patients at High Risk to No-Show for Primary Care Appointment: A Randomized Trial
verfasst von: Hyo Jung Tak, PhD
Publikationsdatum: 08.08.2016
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Ausgabe 12/2016
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Elektronische ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-016-3835-7

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