Our review found that a 'package' including an enhanced letter incorporating several reminders was effective, but the effectiveness of first-class/priority mail to increase response in randomised trials was unclear.
From follow-up evaluation question data, 100% of responding DOs felt that the course email reminders were effective in reminding them about educational modules compared to 92.6% of MDs; 95.9% of US medical graduates rated the reminders as useful, while only 77.8% of graduates from non-US medical schools found them useful.
The report serves as the latest reminder that effective college presidents are a hot commodity and that college boards are going to unusual lengths to recruit and retain them.
But the problem Kristof is describing is a reminder that effective marginal tax rates may matter more at the bottom of the income ladder, where benefit cut-offs can discourage precisely the kind of choices that enable intergenerational mobility, and make striving of any sort seem like a dicier proposition than sticking with the benefits you have.
In our setting, the fact that about half of the patients did not provide us with their mobile phone number may have made an intervention exclusively designed on the basis of a SMS reminder less effective than the sequential intervention used.
We observed that most of the invitees responded on the day they received the letter or the day after that and that the (timing of the) reminder was effective (see figure 2), which is something to consider when planning the capacity of an online questionnaire and of personnel responding to questions.
Postal reminders are effective, but costly, and their effect decreases with time [ 4, 5].
Postal reminders are effective to a lesser extent, and their effect tends to decrease with time [ 9].
Table 4 shows that although both reminders were effective in reducing the rate of missed appointments, only the text-message reminder system was cost-effective, mostly because additional administrative resources were needed for the telephone reminders.
Patient mammogram reminders are effective but have not been fully implemented in practice to improve routine screening.
