Background Automated telephone communication systems (ATCS) can deliver voice
messages and collect health‐related information from patients using either their telephone's …

Missed appointments are an avoidable cost and resource inefficiency which impact upon the
health of the patient and treatment outcomes. Health care services are increasingly utilizing …

Background Telephone or text-message reminders have been shown to significantly reduce
the rate of missed appointments in different medical settings. Since text-messaging is less …

Objective. To measure the cost of nonattendance (“no-shows”) and benefit of overbooking
and interventions to reduce no-shows for an outpatient endoscopy suite. Methods. We used …

Aims In HIV‐infected individuals, heavy drinking compromises survival. In HIV primary care,
the efficacy of brief motivational interviewing (MI) to reduce drinking is unknown, alcohol …

Background Bowel preparation is inadequate in a large proportion of colonoscopies,
leading to multiple clinical and economic harms. While most patients receive some form of …

Background Appointment non-attendance–often referred to as “missed
appointments”,“patient no-show”, or “did not attend (DNA)”–causes volatility in health …

Background: Missed appointments are an avoidable cost and a resource inefficiency that
impact on the health of the patient and treatment outcomes. Health-care services are …

Background & Aims Cancelled and missed colonoscopy appointments waste resources,
increase colonoscopy delays, and can adversely affect patient outcomes. We examined …

In the context of medical practice, a complication is an unfavorable outcome related to some
form of procedure or therapy. Whereas the procedure or therapy is intended for good, it …