The studies reviewed included both generic text messaging protocols and some with communications tailored to specific patients. Some messaging systems enabled user responses and others were one-way.
“This review established a scientific basis for text messages as an intervention to improve medication adherence across multiple diseases,” the authors concluded. “Future large, rigorous, randomized trials are needed to further test text messaging interventions.”
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