Smartphone app use for diabetes management: Evaluating patient perspectives

JMIR Diabetes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Lithgow, Kirstie ^a   Edwards, Alun ^a   Rabi, Doreen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mobile health; Smartphone; Type 1 diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85090727582     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23714379     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/diabetes.6643     Document Type: Article

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