Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality

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• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc.

• Publication date

  2018-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Computer Science, Sociology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1093/jamia/ocy052PMID 29788380PMCID PMC7646885
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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