Published on in Vol 8, No 8 (2022): August

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/37422, first published .
Preferences for Attributes of Initial COVID-19 Diagnosis in the United States and China During the Pandemic: Discrete Choice Experiment With Propensity Score Matching

Preferences for Attributes of Initial COVID-19 Diagnosis in the United States and China During the Pandemic: Discrete Choice Experiment With Propensity Score Matching

Preferences for Attributes of Initial COVID-19 Diagnosis in the United States and China During the Pandemic: Discrete Choice Experiment With Propensity Score Matching

Yimin Zhang   1 * , MBBS ;   Taoran Liu   2 * , BS ;   Zonglin He   3 * , MBBS ;   Sze Ngai Chan   4 , MBBS, MPH, PhD ;   Babatunde Akinwunmi   5, 6 , MD, MPH ;   Jian Huang   7 , MPH, PhD ;   Tak-Hap Wong   2 , MBBS, MMed ;   Casper J P Zhang   8 * , MPH, PhD ;   Wai-Kit Ming   2 * , MD, PhD, MPH

1 School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

2 Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

3 Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

4 Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

5 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

6 Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

7 Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences, Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore, Singapore

8 School of Public Health, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

*these authors contributed equally

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  • Wai-Kit Ming, MD, PhD, MPH
  • Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health
  • City University of Hong Kong
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