Text Message Reminders to Improve Immunization Appointment Attendance in Alberta, Canada: The Childhood Immunization Reminder Project Pilot Study

Shannon E MacDonald   ^{1, 2} , PhD ;   Emmanuel Marfo   ¹ , MN ;   Hannah Sell   ^{1, 2} , BHSc, MSc ;   Ali Assi   ¹ , MPH, MD ;   Andrew Frank-Wilson   ^{3, 4} , PhD ;   Katherine Atkinson   ^{5, 6} , PhD ;   James D Kellner   ^{7, 8} , MSc, MD ;   Deborah McNeil   ⁹ , BSc, MN, PhD ;   Kristin Klein   ^{10, 11} , BSc, MD ;   Lawrence W Svenson   ^{2, 11, 12, 13 †} , PhD

¹ Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

² School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

³ South Zone Data & Analytics, Alberta Health Services, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

⁴ Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada

⁵ Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

⁶ Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Canada

⁷ Department of Pediatrics, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁸ Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

⁹ Strategic Clinical Networks, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

¹⁰ Communicable Disease Control, Provincial Population & Public Health, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹¹ Division of Preventive Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹² Analytics and Performance Reporting, Alberta Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada

¹³ Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

†deceased