The Ethical Use of Mobile Health Technology in Clinical Psychiatry

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 205, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 4-8

  Torous, John ^a   Roberts, Laura Weiss ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ethics; Mobile health; technology

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSUMER; DECISION TREE; EXPECTATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MODEL; PSYCHIATRIST; PSYCHIATRY; TENSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHICS; TELEMEDICINE;

HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHIATRY; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 85009787049     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000596     Document Type: Article

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