The development of a multilingual tool for facilitating the primary-specialty care interface in low resource settings: The MSF tele-expertise system

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Bonnardot, Laurent ^a,b   Liu, Joanne ^a,c   Wootton, Elizabeth ^d   Amoros, Isabel ^a   Olson, David ^a   Wong, Sidney ^a   Wootton, Richard ^e,f  

^a MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Developing countries; Multilingual network; Tele expertise; Telehealth; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84978872391     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00126     Document Type: Article

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