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A digital advocate? Reactions of rural people who experience homelessness to the idea of recording clinical encounters.

Stuart W GrandeMary Ganger CastaldoElizabeth Carpenter-SongIda GriesemerGlyn Elwyn
Published in: Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy (2016)
We found that while many rural, disadvantaged individuals felt marginalized by the wide social distance between themselves and their clinicians, recording technology may serve as an advocate by holding both patients and doctors accountable and by permitting the burden of clinical proof to be shared.
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