We sent two reminders to increase the response rate.
This contradicts other research reporting an effect of the use of e-mail reminders to increase response rates [ 39- 41].
This will enable patients to have secure and timely access to relevant information such as referral status updates, reminders to increase patient compliance, and tools to facilitate communication with their physician.
As mobile phone ownership continues to increase rapidly in many countries worldwide, there is potential to utilise SMS reminders to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivery.
Other facilitators included the involvement of gatekeepers of the venues where the interventions took place [ 51, 54, 60], providing transportation [ 44, 47, 48] and financial incentives or gifts [ 29] and using reminders to increase participation [ 52].
In this paper, we present an analysis of the effect of mail reminders to increase participation among controls in a case-control study of risk factors for Campylobacter enteritis in England.
However, in spite of a personal invitation letter, easy online home based procedures, and the use of text messaging and email reminders to increase response rates, participation was too low to reduce chlamydia transmission in the target population over the three years of the intervention.
