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Design and Usability of Consumer Health Tech and Home Monitoring Devices (344) Mobile Health (mhealth) (3600) Symptom Checkers (43) mHealth for Symptom and Disease Monitoring, Chronic Disease Management (1798) mHealth for Screening (305) Formative Evaluation of Digital Health Interventions (3396) Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (906) Focus Groups and Qualitative Research for Human Factors Research (1290)

Published on in Vol 11 (2024)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/57360, first published .
The Doctors, Their Patients, and the Symptom Checker App: Qualitative Interview Study With General Practitioners in Germany

The Doctors, Their Patients, and the Symptom Checker App: Qualitative Interview Study With General Practitioners in Germany

The Doctors, Their Patients, and the Symptom Checker App: Qualitative Interview Study With General Practitioners in Germany

Authors of this article:

Christine Preiser1 Author Orcid Image ;   Natalia Radionova1 Author Orcid Image ;   Eylem Ög1 Author Orcid Image ;   Roland Koch2 Author Orcid Image ;   Malte Klemmt3 Author Orcid Image ;   Regina Müller4 Author Orcid Image ;   Robert Ranisch5 Author Orcid Image ;   Stefanie Joos2 Author Orcid Image ;   Monika A Rieger1 Author Orcid Image
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