Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research

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Kaiser trial finds digital reminders raise statin refills modestly

Designed and ran the trial inside Kaiser Permanente Northern California's care delivery system

About one in five patients in a large Northern California health system had stopped refilling their statins. Kaiser Permanente sent 20,604 of them a secure portal message, a text, a nonsecure email, or nothing beyond usual communication, then counted who refilled.

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