Yearb Med Inform 2000; 09(01): 71-78
Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart
Patient-Computer Dialogue: A Review[1 ] ,[2 ]
W.V. Slack
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Division of Clinical Computing, Departments of Medicine and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Center for Clinical Computing, Boston, MA, USA
› Author Affiliations
Keywords cybermedicine - patient-computer dialogue - computers - interviews - medical history taking - user-computer interface - self-care - patient power - patient satisfaction
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