political realm means that the values and priorities of individual patients are marginalized and the preferences of powerful … organized interests at the expense of individual patients …

delivered to patients via text message and designed to boost adoption of the influenza vaccine. Our findings suggest that text … with the sort of communications patients expected to receive from their healthcare provider (i.e., not surprising, casual …, or interactive). The best-performing intervention in our study reminded patients twice to get their flu shot at their …