A Smartphone App for Increasing Live Organ Donation

American Journal of Transplantation

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 3548-3553

  Kumar, K ^a   King, E A ^a   Muzaale, A D ^a   Konel, J M ^a   Bramstedt, K A ^b   Massie, A B ^a,c   Segev, D L ^a,c   Cameron, A M ^a  

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

^b BOND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

clinical research practice; donors and donation: living; kidney transplantation nephrology; kidney transplantation: living donor; liver transplantation hepatology; liver transplantation: living donor; organ transplantation in general

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DONOR; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL MEDIA; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROCEDURES; TRANSPLANTATION; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMARTPHONE; SOCIAL MEDIA; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT;

EID: 84981347293     PISSN: 16006135     EISSN: 16006143     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ajt.13961     Document Type: Article

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