{"id":7148,"date":"2020-05-27T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2021-03-19T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T00:29:30","slug":"a-benchmark-of-online-covid-19-symptom-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/a-benchmark-of-online-covid-19-symptom-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"A Benchmark of Online COVID-19 Symptom Checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">pre-print, not peer reviewed<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">]<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Online COVID-19 symptom checkers and chatbots are being widely used in response to the global pandemic.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Munsch et al. evaluated 10\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">online COVID-19 symptom checkers\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">using<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0COVID-19 case reports and found them to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vary widely in their predictive capabilities, suggesting\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">th<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">quality assessment of these tools is\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">necessary before they are implemented<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Munsch et al. (May 26, 2020). A Benchmark of Online COVID-19 Symptom Checkers. Pre-print\u00a0downloaded May 27 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.22.20109777\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.05.22.20109777<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0Online COVID-19 symptom checkers and chatbots are being widely used in response to the global pandemic.\u00a0Munsch et al. evaluated 10\u00a0online COVID-19 symptom checkers\u00a0using\u00a0COVID-19 case reports and found them to\u00a0vary widely in their predictive capabilities, suggesting\u00a0that\u00a0quality assessment of these tools is\u00a0necessary before they are implemented.\u00a0 Munsch et al. (May 26, 2020). A Benchmark&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/27\/a-benchmark-of-online-covid-19-symptom-checkers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7149,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}