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Idea Exchange: The preventive reminder already in their pocket
Use clients' cell phones to enhave compliance.
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Some of our clients who struggle to remember their pets' monthly heartworm preventive allowed us to program their cell phones with a monthly reminder. We tested their pets for heartworms and then programmed the clients' phones before they left the clinic. We have seen an improvement in compliance since starting this practice.
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Dr. Robyn Kurtz
Hagerstown, Ind.
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