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Healthcare organizations, policy makers, or clinicians using short messaging service messages to support healthcare interventions should (1) implement interventions that have been found to work in healthcare settings, (2) continue evaluating short messaging service interventions that have not been adequately assessed, and (3) improve collaboration between various healthcare entities to develop studies targeted at specific populations to evaluate the long-term impact of short messaging service on healthcare outcomes. <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1177\/1460458214540908","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,19]],"date-time":"2014-07-19T05:34:31Z","timestamp":1405748071000},"page":"140-150","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":28,"title":["The role of short messaging service in supporting the delivery of healthcare: An umbrella systematic review"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Mowafa","family":"Househ","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Public Health and Health Informatics, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, National Guard Health Affairs, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2014,7,18]]},"reference":[{"key":"bibr1-1460458214540908","unstructured":"Kelly H. 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