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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2018 Dec 7;33(1):e13447. doi: 10.1111/ctr.13447

Table 2.

Thematic analysis of 82 tweets about living organ donation.a

Theme Number of tweets Number of unique Twitter users Representative tweet
Donation Stories 27 7 Husband Celebrates 20th Anniversary In Hospital By Donating Kidney To Wife [link]
News stories 16 6 Organ donation to be featured on BBC Radio Scotland’s Kaye Adams this morning. Listen to [name’s] remarkable donation story #WeNeedEverybody
Research 12 4 Important article I published re: surgical technique to use living donor kidneys with benign tumors for transplant [link]
Patient needs a donor 11 3 These special grandchildren and [name’s] daughter are seeking a living kidney donor for their grandfather [link]
Inside transplant hospitals 11 3 Live #OrganDonation Tuesday again @[transplant center] First #kidney #Transplant done, starting the second @[transplant surgeon] @[transplant surgeon]
International 10 7 Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico [link] (via… [link]
Quotes from living donors 9 4 A living kidney donor writes: ‘We need to encourage more donors – living or deceased’ (via @thejournal_ie)
Thanking living donors 4 4 Living donors were responsible for 25 kidney transplants in #Manitoba in 2016. [link] #heros
Pediatrics 4 3 LDLT important option for children as deceased donor population is older & more obese#liveliverdonor
Books and movies about living donation 3 2 Aunt’s life-saving transplant inspired Derry teen to make film [link]
Living donor chains 3 2 Seminole County deputy gets new kidney thanks to 8-person kidney exchange
Anniversaries 2 2 Can not believe this was a year ago, great moments with lovely people [link]
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Tweets are copied including grammatical errors but with names and links removed.