Integrating mobile phones into medical abortion provision: Intervention development, use, and lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  De Tolly, Katherine Marianne ^a   Constant, Deborah ^b  

^a Cell Life   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Medical abortion; MHealth; Mobisite; SMS; Telemedicine; USSD

Indexed keywords

EID: 85099689043     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.3165     Document Type: Article

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