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Stowers C, Healey L, O'Connor CC. Short message service broadcasting to improve the uptake of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients at a metropolitan sexual health clinic. Sex Health. 2014;11(6):590-1doi: 10.1071/SH14162.
Stowers, C., Healey, L., & O'Connor, C. C. (2014). Short message service broadcasting to improve the uptake of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients at a metropolitan sexual health clinic. Sexual health, 11(6), 590-1. https://doi.org/10.1071/SH14162
Stowers, Chanelle, et al. "Short message service broadcasting to improve the uptake of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients at a metropolitan sexual health clinic." Sexual health vol. 11,6 (2014): 590-1. doi: https://doi.org/10.1071/SH14162
Stowers C, Healey L, O'Connor CC. Short message service broadcasting to improve the uptake of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients at a metropolitan sexual health clinic. Sex Health. 2014 Dec;11(6):590-1. doi: 10.1071/SH14162. PMID: 25435196.
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Sex Health. 2014 Dec;11(6):590-1. doi: 10.1071/SH14162.

Short message service broadcasting to improve the uptake of influenza vaccination in HIV-positive patients at a metropolitan sexual health clinic.

Sexual health

Chanelle Stowers, Loretta Healey, Catherine C O'Connor

Affiliations

  1. Sexual Health Service, Community Health, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, NSW 2050, Australia.

PMID: 25435196 DOI: 10.1071/SH14162

Abstract

A trial of using Short Message Service (SMS) broadcasting at a metropolitan sexual health clinic in 2013 to promote the awareness and uptake of influenza vaccinations in HIV-positive patients resulted in a significant increase in the number of patients contacted (35% vs 81% P<0.0001) and vaccinated by the clinic (26% vs 47% P<0.001) compared with 2012, when individual telephone calls were made to patients. Additional benefits were less staff time used promoting influenza vaccination and the resultant lower staff cost. SMS broadcasting is an efficient and inexpensive method of communicating health messages to large numbers of patients.

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