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Trial reportJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA

Characteristics of effective electronic mail messages distributed to healthcare professionals in a hospital setting.

Jens Kaltschmidt, Simon P W Schmitt, Markus G Pruszydlo, Walter E Haefeli

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
In one paragraph

Trial report in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Jens KaltschmidtDepartment of Internal Medicine VI, Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacoepidemiology, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Simon P W Schmitt
Markus G Pruszydlo
Walter E Haefeli

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Electronic mailing systems (e-mail) are an important means to disseminate information within electronic networks. However, in large business communities including the hectic environment of hospitals it may be difficult to induce account holders to read the e-mail. In two mailings disseminated in a large university hospital we evaluated the impact of e-mail layout (three e-mail text versions, two e-mails with graphics) on the willingness of its approximately 6500 recipients to seek additional electronic information and open an integrated link. Overall access rates after 90 days were 21.1 and 23.5% with more than 70% of the respondents opening the link within 3 days. Differences between different layouts were large and artwork text, HTML text, animated GIF, and static image prompted 1.2, 1.7, 1.8, and 2.3 times more often access than the courier plain text message (p <or= 0.001). This study revealed that layout is a major determinant of the success of an information campaign.

Indexed as

Electronic MailHospital Communication SystemsUser-Computer InterfaceAttitude of Health PersonnelAttitude to ComputersHospitals, UniversityHumansPersonnel, HospitalTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID18096910
PMCPMC2274791

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