Combined effects of cues influencing patients’ purchasing behavior in online health-care communities: qualitative comparative analysis based on cue utilization theory

Abstract Background The sudden outbreak of COVID-19 in early 2020 pushed the online health-care communities (OHCs) into the public eye in China. However, OHCs is an emerging service model, which still has many problems such as low patient trust and low patient utilization rate. Patients are the user...

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Main Authors: Dixuan Ren, Baolong Ma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-10-01
Series:BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-022-02023-0