The Potential Possibility of Symptom Checker

Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Soma, Japan.
² Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Health Intelligence Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan.

Tomohiro Morita et al. Int J Health Policy Manag. 2017.

. 2017 Oct 1;6(10):615-616.

doi: 10.15171/ijhpm.2017.41.

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Soma Central Hospital, Soma, Japan.
² Department of Medicine, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
³ Health Intelligence Center, The Institute of Medical Science, The University of Tokyo, Minato-ku, Japan.
⁴ Department of Surgery, Minamisoma Municipal General Hospital, Fukushima, Japan.
⁵ Department of Internal Medicine, Jyoban Hospital of Tokiwa Foundation, Fukushima, Japan.

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