Mobile phone-delivered reminders and incentives to improve childhood immunisation coverage and timeliness in Kenya (M-SIMU): a cluster randomised controlled trial.

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Published in Lancet Glob Health on April 01, 2017

Authors

Dustin G Gibson1, Benard Ochieng2, E Wangeci Kagucia3, Joyce Were2, Kyla Hayford3, Lawrence H Moulton4, Orin S Levine3, Frank Odhiambo2, Katherine L O'Brien3, Daniel R Feikin3

Author Affiliations

1: International Vaccine Access Center, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: dgibso28@jhu.edu.
2: Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health and Research Collaboration, Kisumu, Kenya.
3: International Vaccine Access Center, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
4: Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.

Associated clinical trials:

DOT Selfie: A Mobile Technology Intervention to Evaluate Treatment Adherence Among Tuberculosis Patients | NCT04134689

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