vaccination of high-risk patients reduced winter hospitalizations, emergency room visits, and tests for respiratory ailments by 10% to 20%. As part of a three-year randomized trial, physicians of patients at high risk for serious illness from influenza infection in the study group received computer reminders to take preventive-care actions, while physicians of high-risk patients in the control ...

The proposed paper gives a brief survey of situational control (SC) of complex systems development, also a brief survey of applications that were realized in the past period (SC of robotic technological complexes, SC of electric network, SC in metallurgy, SC in biomedicine, situational modeling, situational classification in projecting, etc.) The paper also deals with problems of decision – mak...

Organisations are continually looking for means to stimulate innovation and creativity, within and across working groups, functions and geographical boundaries. One of the ways to achieve this is through tacit knowledge exchanges in the form of sharing and transfer of knowledge by means of narratives, storytelling, reminders, best practices etc. Knowledge is an invaluable part of the shared pra...

When confronted with reminders to things that we would prefer not to think about, we often attempt to put the unwanted memories out of awareness. Here, I argue that the ability to control memory is a special case of a broad class of situations thought to require executive control: response override. In such situations, one must stop a strong habitual response to a stimulus due to situational de...

BACKGROUND Guidelines recommend frequent screening of men who have sex with men (MSM) for sexually transmissible infections (STIs) but few interventions have demonstrated increased testing and detection of bacterial STIs among MSM in controlled studies. METHODS We used automated text message and email reminders generated by computer assisted self-interview (CASI) to remind MSM to retest for s...

BACKGROUND The opportunity to improve care using computer reminders is one of the main incentives for implementing sophisticated clinical information systems. We conducted a systematic review to quantify the expected magnitude of improvements in processes of care from computer reminders delivered to clinicians during their routine activities. METHODS We searched the MEDLINE, Embase and CINAHL...

BACKGROUND Adherence to evidence-based therapies such as medications and exercise remains poor among patients after a myocardial infarction (MI). Text message reminders have been shown to improve rates of adherence to medication and exercise, but the existing studies have been of short duration. OBJECTIVE Two single-center randomized controlled pilot trials were conducted to evaluate the impa...

BACKGROUND Client reminders are known to increase cancer screening attendance rates. However, there are significant costs associated with them, and their effect by population size is unknown. METHODS In 2007 and 2008, the Japanese Government surveyed breast and cervical cancer screening in every municipality in Japan. From the results, we selected all 1,464 municipalities that carried out bot...

OBJECTIVES To conduct a systematic review of strategies to optimize immunisation uptake within preschool children in developed countries. DESIGN Systematic review. SETTING Developed countries PARTICIPANTS Preschool children who were due, or overdue, one or more of their routine primary immunisations. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Increase in the proportion of the target population up to date wi...

Objective: There is limited evidence on whether growing mobile phone availability in sub-Saharan Africa can be used to promote high adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART). This study tested the efficacy of short message service (SMS) reminders on adherence to ART among patients attending a rural clinic in Kenya. Design: A randomized controlled trial of four SMS reminder interventions with 48...