Salman Hameed, Saad Ullah, Anam Nadeem, Usman Ismat Butt, Muhammad Umar, Shabbar Hussain Changazi.
Effect of telephonic reminder on patient`s Compliance for follow up after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
Esculapio J Services Inst Med Sci Jan ;15(1):58-60.

Objectives: To assess whether phone reminders would improve patients compliance in terms of timely follow up, adherence to medical and dietary advice in patients after laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Methods: This was a cross sectional study which was carried out in Services Hospital Lahore. A total of 100 patients who underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy were selected and randomly allocated into two groups. Patients in group A were reminded about follow up through a telephone call and patients in group B were not contacted through telephone and turn out the patients was observed in the OPD. Chi square test was applied to compare the groups. P value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. Stratification was done for age, gender and education level. Results: Mean age of patients was 42.8 years. 64% of patients were females. Out of 50 patients, 30 (60%)adhered to the advice after in group A(after telephonic remainder) while out of 50 patients, 16 (32%)patients remained compliant to the advice in group B(no telephonic remainder). In addition younger patient were more compliant. Conclusion: It was concluded that telephonic reminder had a statistically significant impact on the adherence of advice of doctor and young patients had a better response to the follow and to medical advice.

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