Abstract
We thank Tan and Sestan for their interest in our work 1 and for their interesting additional analysis from their previously published report into the DayCOR system. 2 We are pleased to hear of the high response rate received from parents of paediatric patients when using SMS to distribute an online survey.
The use of online surveys is one method for electronic follow-up that we have considered, although we are also interested to see whether direct conversational SMS messaging provides a lower barrier to engagement—particularly for collecting longitudinal data at regular intervals during patient recovery.
We are currently planning to trial such a system at our institution and look forward to showing these results in due course (Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry; identifier ACTRN12619001028190). Further work to directly compare various electronic follow-up methods would also be a useful addition to this area of enquiry.
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