Electronic symptom reporting between patient and provider for improved health care service quality: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Part 1: State of the art

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Johansen, Monika Alise ^a   Henriksen, Eva ^a   Horsch, Alexander ^b,c   Schuster, Tibor ^b   Rosvold Berntsen, Gro K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH NORWAY   (Norway)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Consultation; Electronic symptom reporting; Monitoring; Patient participation; Physician patient relationship; Review; Self management; Shared decision making

Indexed keywords

DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REVIEW;

HUMANS; INTERNET; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84872460511     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2214     Document Type: Review

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