Effectiveness of automated appointment reminders in Psychosis Community Services: A randomised controlled trial – CORRIGENDUM

Abstract

Reports an error in "Effectiveness of automated appointment reminders in psychosis community services: A randomised controlled trial" by Eugenia Kravariti, Christopher Reeve-Mates, Rafaela Da Gama Pires, Elias Tsakanikos, Daniel Hayes, Siobhan Renshaw, Sarah McAllister, Vishal Bhavsar, Pam Patterson, Emily Daley, Jane Stewart, Megan Pritchard, Hitesh Shetty, Rosalind Ramsay, Rocio Perez-Iglesias and Philip McGuire (BJPsych Open, 2018[Jan], Vol 4[1], 15-17). One of the authors, Rocio Perez-Iglesias, inadvertently omitted his affiliation as part of the research group CIBERSAM. It should have been included as follows: CIBERSAM: Centro Investigacion Biomedica en Red Salud Mental, Santander, Spain. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2018-04496-003). We report on the first open-label, parallel group randomised controlled trial of automated appointment reminders in a psychosis community service in the UK. Ninety-five patients were randomly allocated to receiving/not receiving automated messaging reminders 7 days and 1 day before appointments. All 'Attended' and 'Missed' appointment outcomes over 6 months were analysed using cluster regression analysis. Reminded appointments were significantly more frequently attended than non-reminded appointments (unadjusted odds ratio (OR) = 3.54, 95% CI 1.36-9.22, P = 0.01; adjusted OR = 2.95, 95% CI 1.05-8.85, P < 0.05). Automated messaging reminders can provide a robust strategy for promoting engagement with psychosis services. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved)