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Consumer & Patient Education and Shared-Decision Making (760) Artificial Intelligence (1704) Chatbots and Conversational Agents (623) Participatory Medicine & E-Patients (829) Voice Assistants (47) Information Quality in Digital Media (373) Safety and Error Prevention in Health (225) Natural Language Processing (795)

Published on in Vol 20, No 9 (2018): September

Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

Patient and Consumer Safety Risks When Using Conversational Assistants for Medical Information: An Observational Study of Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

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Timothy W. Bickmore1 Author Orcid Image ;   Ha Trinh1 Author Orcid Image ;   Stefan Olafsson1 Author Orcid Image ;   Teresa K O'Leary1 Author Orcid Image ;   Reza Asadi1 Author Orcid Image ;   Nathaniel M Rickles2 Author Orcid Image ;   Ricardo Cruz3 Author Orcid Image
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