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Texting as a Health Tool for Teenagers

“This past month in the journal Pediatrics, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York published the results of a study showing that text messaging could significantly improve the rate of adherence among young liver transplant patients. Using a program called CareSpeak, the researchers issued text messages to a group of 41 pediatric liver transplant patients. The text messages reminded the patients to take their medications, which ranged from one to three different pills once or twice a day.”

Article
Pauline W. Chen, The New York Times, 5 November 2009
Abstract (Miloh 2009)

6 November 2009 | Categories: News | Country: | Tags: , ,
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