Health app use among US mobile phone owners: A national survey

JMIR mHealth and uHealth

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Krebs, Paul ^b   Duncan, Dustin T ^a,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cell phones; Mobile apps; Telemedicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 85083709131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22915222     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.4924     Document Type: Review

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