Know your audience: Predictors of success for a patient-centered texting app to augment linkage to HIV care in rural Uganda

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Siedner, Mark J ^a   Santorino, Data ^b   Haberer, Jessica E ^a   Bangsberg, David R ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

HIV; Randomized controlled trial; Telemedicine; Text messaging; Uganda

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING; UGANDA;

ADULT; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RURAL POPULATION; TELEMEDICINE; TEXT MESSAGING; UGANDA;

EID: 84929669137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3859     Document Type: Article

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