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September 10, 2025BMC Digital HealthOpen Access

Digital symptom checkers for COVID-19: a scoping review and pilot study of the ENTIRE quality appraisal tool for health informatics studies

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VBVálerie BélangerMCMartin CousineauMMMarie-Pierre Moreault

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Overview

Scoping review analyzes digital symptom checkers for COVID-19, highlighting evaluation limitations.

Key Points

  • Only 29 studies on digital symptom checkers for COVID-19 were identified, indicating limited research in this area.
  • Of the 29 studies, 75% were observational, revealing a lack of rigorous evaluation methods and clear metrics.
  • The ENTIRE quality appraisal tool rated 17 out of 29 studies as high-quality, yet 38% lacked clear evaluation criteria.
  • This review suggests enhancing standard methods to improve the quality evaluation of digital health interventions.

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Bélanger et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c23b4ab210217d64784983https://doi.org/10.1186/s44247-025-00189-x
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