Duty to Recontact Clinical Trial
Official title:
Impact of Mobile Text Messaging on Follow Up Rates After Discharge From the Pediatric Emergency Department
To compare the effectiveness of text message versus voice call as a method of contact for providing results of diagnostic tests and assuring ongoing care from the pediatric emergency department.
The investigators plan to conduct a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare two means of contacting patients and their caregivers after discharge from the emergency department in order to provide results of tests: text messaging (intervention group) vs. telephone call (standard group). ;