Doctor–patient interactions that exclude patients experiencing homelessness from health services: an ethnographic exploration

Background: People experiencing homelessness have poor health indices and poor access to health care. Their health service utilisation (HSU) is typified by: late illness presentations; poor attendance rates at appointments; low usage of primary care services and outpatient departments; and high util...

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Main Authors: Austin O'Carroll, David Wainwright
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Royal College of General Practitioners 2021-05-01
Series:BJGP Open
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Online Access:https://bjgpopen.org/content/5/3/BJGPO.2021.0031