De-romanticising dialogue in collaborative health care research: a critical, reflexive approach to tensions in an action research project's initial phase
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Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Communication and Arts, Roskilde University, Denmark.
Department of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.
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How to Cite
Phillips, Louise, Birgitte Ravn Olesen, Michael Scheffmann-Petersen, and Helle Merete Nordentoft. 2018. “De-Romanticising Dialogue in Collaborative Health Care Research: A Critical, Reflexive Approach to Tensions in an Action Research project’s Initial Phase”. Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/qrmh.2018.7178.
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