Link → Texting Teen Transplant Patients Improves Outcomes and Compliance With Treatment
” … the transplant recipients receive a text message reminding them to take their anti-rejection medications. If they don’t respond to the text message, their adult caregiver will then receive a text message. Since taking anti-rejection medications at the same time every day is important for preventing rejection, and “I forgot” is the most common reason for missing medication, the new program is designed to provide a reminder to teen patients in a way that is user friendly. … A blood test is done that helps determine compliance with medication, … [and] rates of rejection episodes are counted. In this case, rejection episodes dropped from 12 in one year to 2 for patients in the program.”
