Text4Baby: Using Text Messaging to Improve Maternal and Newborn Health

Nursing for Women's Health

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 206-212

  Jordan, Elizabeth T ^a   Ray, Ellen M ^a   Johnson, Pamela ^b   Evans, W Douglas ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^b Voxiva Inc   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79958853215     PISSN: 17514851     EISSN: 1751486X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-486X.2011.01635.x     Document Type: Article

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