Transplantid.net: A Pilot Crowdsourced, Living, Online Library of Resources for the Teaching and Practice of Transplant Infectious Diseases

Yoram A Puius; Marwan M Azar; Helen Tsai; Paschalis Vergidis; Courtney E Harris; Shweta Anjan; Nicolas Barros; Sara Belga; Sally T Chuang; Jonathan M Czeresnia; Shipra Goel; Dilek Ince; Alfred Luk; Aneela Majeed; Ashrit Multani; Karam M Obeid; Neeraja Swaminathan

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofad081

Transplantid.net: A Pilot Crowdsourced, Living, Online Library of Resources for the Teaching and Practice of Transplant Infectious Diseases

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2023 Feb 14;10(2):ofad081. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad081. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Authors

Yoram A Puius¹, Marwan M Azar², Helen Tsai¹, Paschalis Vergidis³, Courtney E Harris⁴, Shweta Anjan⁵, Nicolas Barros⁶, Sara Belga⁷, Sally T Chuang⁸, Jonathan M Czeresnia¹, Shipra Goel⁹, Dilek Ince¹⁰, Alfred Luk¹¹, Aneela Majeed¹², Ashrit Multani¹³, Karam M Obeid¹⁴, Neeraja Swaminathan¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA.
² Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
³ Division of Public Health, Infectious Diseases and Occupational Medicine, Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA.
⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA.
⁶ Division of Infectious Diseases, Indiana University Health, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁸ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, USA.
⁹ Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA.
¹⁰ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
¹¹ Section of Infectious Diseases, Deming Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
¹² Department of Infectious Diseases, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
¹³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
¹⁴ Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Abstract

The field of transplant infectious diseases is rapidly evolving, presenting a challenge for clinical practice and trainee education. Here we describe the construction of transplantid.net, a free online library, crowdsourced and continuously updated for the dual purpose of point-of-care evidence-based management and teaching.

Keywords: bibliography; education; library; solid organ transplantation; stem cell transplantation.