The Potential Possibility of Symptom Checker

Document Type : Letter to Editor

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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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Dear Editor,

The access to medical care is unacceptably low worldwide in spite of the increasing demand for medical care due to population aging and increasing burden of non-infectious diseases... (Read more...)

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  • Receive Date: 11 March 2017
  • Revise Date: 18 March 2017
  • Accept Date: 18 March 2017
  • First Publish Date: 01 October 2017

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