Safety of patient-facing digital symptom checkers

Lancet. 2018 Nov 24;392(10161):2263-2264. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32819-8. Epub 2018 Nov 6.

Authors

Hamish Fraser¹, Enrico Coiera², David Wong³

Affiliations

¹ Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. Electronic address: hamish_fraser@brown.edu.
² Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
³ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

PMID: 30413281
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32819-8

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence / statistics & numerical data*
Artificial Intelligence / trends
Consumer Health Informatics
Consumer Health Information / methods*
Diagnostic Errors / statistics & numerical data*
Diagnostic Errors / trends
Humans
Information Seeking Behavior
Quality of Health Care / standards*
Safety
Self Care / methods*
Triage / methods