Table 1.

The keywords used to identify additional disease categories in campaign descriptions.

Disease categorya	Keywords searched in campaign descriptionsb	Representative examples from campaign descriptions
Injuries and external causes	accident, injury/injuries/injured, crash, collision, and burn/burns/burned	“[He] got into a serious accident in October. All four extremities were injured but the most severe were his legs.”
Cardiovascular diseases	heart transplant and heart surgery	“His cardiologist has informed him that a heart transplant is [his] only hope for survival.”
Neoplasms	chemo/chemotherapy, radiation/radiotherapy, and bone marrow transplant	“The chemotherapy did not stabilize the lymphoma so we were unable to move forward with the transplant.”
Genitourinary diseases	dialysis and kidney/renal transplant	“This disease resulted in my kidneys failing and having to start dialysis.”
Gastrointestinal diseases	liver transplant	“...the cirrhosis is incurable without a complete liver transplant.”
Respiratory diseases	lung transplant	“Her desire to live life...will only be possible with the double lung transplant.”

^aEach disease category was indicated as present in a campaign if any of the corresponding terms were included in the campaign description.

^bKeywords were selected during the exploratory reading of crowdfunding campaigns as indicators of a disease category that did not specify a diagnosis.