In a recent Australian RCT, in which intervention group GPs received a computer generated alert to remind them to test young women for chlamydia, a 27% greater increase in chlamydia testing was evident in the intervention group [ 10].
Many computerized physician order entry systems (CPOEs) generate drug safety alerts to remind physicians of potentially unsafe situations.
Saint and colleagues, in their study of a written urinary catheter reminder generated by a research nurse to remind physicians which of their inpatients had urinary catheters, 52 found that the intervention was either cost-neutral or modestly cost-saving depending on the assumptions made.
The facilitator, again, referred to all of the chart papers generated in the earlier PD sessions to remind participants what they had done/discussed in the earlier sessions.
Get another person to remind you.
In developed countries, healthcare institutions often use communication technology to remind patients of follow-up appointments, generating a positive image of the healthcare institution and strengthening patient loyalty.
Reminder interventions can be generated by nurses, physicians or electronic order sets, and can be targeted to remind either nurses or physicians about the catheter.
In Rome these days, you hear so many anecdotes about Lindy Boggs that you have to remind yourself how little time she has had to generate them.
Furthermore, care should be taken to remind the students of both the selective processes for adaptations, and mechanisms that generate them in the first place (which will doubtlessly tie in with more traditional lecture and course work within the course).
"I would like to remind opposing counsel that my client is entitled to half of whatever earnings Peyton Manning generates on FanDuel".
