Patients’ Preferences for Artificial Intelligence Applications Versus Clinicians in Disease Diagnosis During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in China: Discrete Choice Experiment

Taoran Liu   ^{1, 2 *} , BSc ;   Winghei Tsang   ^{1 *} , MBBS ;   Fengqiu Huang   ¹ , MPH ;   Oi Ying Lau   ¹ , MBBS ;   Yanhui Chen   ¹ , MBBS ;   Jie Sheng   ¹ , BA ;   Yiwei Guo   ³ , BBA ;   Babatunde Akinwunmi   ^{4, 5} , MPH, PhD, MM, MMSc ;   Casper JP Zhang   ⁶ , PhD, MPH ;   Wai-Kit Ming   ¹ , MD, MPH, PhD, MMSc

¹ Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

² Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

³ School of Finance and Business, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai, China

⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

⁵ Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, Boston, MA, United States

⁶ School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China (Hong Kong)

*these authors contributed equally