Associate Professor, WITI Convenor
Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice
Background and Interests
Eileen McKinlay is a nurse by background and has worked primarily in cancer and palliative care settings. She has also been involved in developing and auditing quality assurance systems in clinical practice. Eileen undertook her comprehensive nursing training at Wellington Polytechnic, now Massey University and then completed a Masters at Victoria University.
In 2002, Eileen joined the Department as a health researcher and was appointed a Lecturer in 2004. In 2017 Eileen was appointed Interprofessional Education Campus Leader and oversees the IPE programme at UOW. She is the UOW Academic Nurse Leader and chairs the UOW Nurses and Midwives Network. Eileen directs the PHC & GP postgraduate programme, convenes the UOW Ashton Fitchett Seminar Series for primary and integrated care health professionals and is a member of the CCDHB Primary Health Care Nurses Leadership Group. Eileen’s research interests include: implementing interprofessional education, interprofessional collaboration in health care delivery, palliative medicine education, long-term condition management; patient’s experience of multimorbidity care and clinicians’ experience of how to provide collaborative care in multlmorbidity; models of integrated youth health care.
Teaching Activities
Undergraduate Medicine Education:
Long-term Conditions Management, Palliative Care
Undergraduate Interprofessional Education:
Convener: Wellington Interprofessional Teaching Initiative (WITI) (Louise Beckingsale, Karen Colman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon, Christine Wilson)
In 2017 the IPE programme involves dietetic, medicine, physiotherapy and radiation therapy students (UOW) and pharmacy interns (Pharmaceutical Society) and clinical psychology students (Victoria University).
Postgraduate Interprofessional Education:
Convenor: GENA 709 Long-term conditions Management
Convenor: GENA 711 Long-term conditions Management (Advanced)
Co-convenor: GENA 731 Supporting Healthier Lifestyles: Core Principles
Co-convenor: GENA 710 Mental Health and Illness in Primary Care
Co-convenor: Study Skills programme for postgraduate students
Research Activities
Preventing type 2 diabetes with Probiotics and Prebiotics (PDP2)
Researchers: Jeremy Krebs, Julian Crane, Kristin Wickens, Mark Huthwaite, Mark Weatherall, Amber Parry-Strong, Christine Barthow, Phillipa Barnes, Sue Pullon, Eileen McKinlay, Jo Hilder & Cristina Cleghorn
Post-settlement refugee-like migrants and refugees, a comparative primary care health analysis.
Researchers: Jonathan Kennedy, Serena Moran, Eileen McKinlay, Jenny Visser
Youth Health Study: Investigating collaborative care across health and social service agencies
Researchers: Sue Pullon, Eileen McKinlay, Sonya Morgan, Sue Garrett
Interprofessional undergraduate education: ongoing research into the undertaking and implementation interprofessional education
Researchers: Karen Coleman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon (Wellington Interprofessional Teaching Initiative WITI)
The social organisation of clinical work: use of the Communities of Clinical Practice tool
Researchers: WITI- Louise Beckingsale, Karen Coleman, Ben Darlow, Sarah Donovan, Ben Gray, Eileen McKinlay, Hazel Neser, Meredith Perry, Sue Pullon, Christine Wilson, Jess Young (Dunedin)
An exploration of the roles of nurses working in a medical school: a pilot study at University of Otago
Researchers: Eileen McKinlay, Christine Barthow, Bernadette Jones, Peter Gallagher, Lindsay Macdonald
An exploration of the impact of a creative writing workshop on medical students
Researchers: Eileen McKinlay, Glenn Colquhoun, Lynn McBain, Peter Gallagher
Supervision of Masters Students
Mary Wong: Caroline Morris & Eileen McKinlay (ongoing)
Robyn Taylor: Caroline Morris & Eileen McKinlay (completed 2015)
Publications
Barthow, C., Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., & Krebs, J. (2022). It is time for a more targeted approach to prediabetes in primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(4), 372-377. doi: 10.1071/HC22089
Darlow, B., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., & Pullon, S. (2022). Factors influencing health career choices during clinicians' first three years in practice. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice & Education, 12(2), 1-13. doi: 10.22230/jripe.2022v12n2a347
Ker, A., Gardiner, T., Carroll, R., Rose, S. B., Morgan, S. J., Garrett, S. M., & McKinlay, E. M. (2022). "We just want to be treated normally and to have that healthcare that comes along with it": Rainbow young people's experiences of primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Youth, 2(4), 691-704. doi: 10.3390/youth2040049
Garrett, S. M., Rose, S. B., & McKinlay, E. M. (2022). Young people talk about primary care and telehealth: A survey of 15- to 25-year olds in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Health & Social Care in the Community. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/hsc.14076
Beckingsale, L., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., OLeary, M., & Doolan-Noble, F. (2022). Sustainable interprofessional education programmes: What influences teachers to stay involved? Journal of Interprofessional Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2115470
Pullon, S., Darlow, B., & McKinlay, E. (2016). Building evaluation into the development of interprofessional education initiatives. In D. Forman, J. Thistlethwaite & M. Jones (Eds.), Leading research and evaluation in interprofessional education and collaborative practice. (pp. 145-166). Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53744-7_8
Chapter in Book - Research
Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Gray, L., Skinner, M., & McHugh, P. (2015). Case study 14.4: Interprofessional education in a rural setting: A quick-start innovation for final-year health professional students. In K. Bin Abdulrahman, S. Mennin, R. Harden & C. Kennedy (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of medical education. (pp. 197). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [Case Study].
Chapter in Book - Research
McKinlay, E., & McBain, L. (2010). The palliative care partnership: The evolution of a New Zealand model of integrated palliative care. In A. Fortier & S. Turcotte (Eds.), Health education: Challenges, issues and impact. (pp. 241-262). New York: Nova.
Chapter in Book - Research
McKinlay, E., Bycroft, J., Darlow, B., Gray, B., Morris, C., & Pullon, S. (2021). Interdisciplinary collaboration: Working in teams for patient care. In K. A. Morris (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (14th ed.) (pp. 23-44). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
Chapter in Book - Other
McKinlay, E., Bycroft, J., Darlow, B., Gray, B., Morris, C., & Pullon, S. (2017). Interdisciplinary collaboration: Working in teams for patient care. In K. A. Morris (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (13th ed.) (pp. 81-99). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
Chapter in Book - Other
McKinlay, E., Gray, B., & Pullon, S. (2013). Interdisciplinary collaboration: Working in teams for patient care. In I. St George (Ed.), Cole's medical practice in New Zealand. (12th ed.) (pp. 143-149). Wellington, New Zealand: Medical Council of New Zealand.
Chapter in Book - Other
Beckingsale, L., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., OLeary, M., & Doolan-Noble, F. (2022). Sustainable interprofessional education programmes: What influences teachers to stay involved? Journal of Interprofessional Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2022.2115470
Journal - Research Article
Brown, M., Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., & Darlow, B. (2022). Template analysis of a longitudinal interprofessional survey: Making sense of free-text comments collected over time. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice & Education, 12(1). doi: 10.22230/jripe.2022v12n1a337
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., Hudson, B., Frew, G., Clark, J., Vincent, L., Abbott, J. H., … Grainger, R., Marra, C., McKinlay, E., & Stanley, J. (2022). Feasibility of a randomised controlled trial of two types of written information for people with knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage Open, 4, 100254. doi: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2022.100254
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., Hudson, B., Frew, G., Clark, J., Vincent, L., Grainger, R., Marra, C., McKinlay, E., Abbott, J. H., & Briggs, A. (2022). Knee osteoarthritis and the knowledgeable, trustworthy pharmacist: Patient and pharmacist perceptions of community pharmacy-based education and support. Musculoskeletal Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1002/msc.1660
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., & Pullon, S. (2022). Factors influencing health career choices during clinicians' first three years in practice. Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice & Education, 12(2), 1-13. doi: 10.22230/jripe.2022v12n2a347
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., McKinlay, E., Gray, L., Purdie, G., Pullon, S., the Longitudinal Interprofessional Study Group, including Beckingsale, L., Foster Page, L., Gallagher, P., Handley, J., Herkt, J., Kuperus, L., McHugh, P., Meldrum, A., Skinner, M., Schwass, R., Weaver, J., Wilson, C., & Windle, J. (2022). Longitudinal impact of preregistration interprofessional education on the attitudes and skills of health professionals during their early careers: A non-randomised trial with 4-year outcomes. BMJ Open, 12, e060066. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-060066
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Garrett, S. M., Rose, S. B., & McKinlay, E. M. (2022). Young people talk about primary care and telehealth: A survey of 15- to 25-year olds in the Wellington region of New Zealand. Health & Social Care in the Community. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/hsc.14076
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Ker, A., Gardiner, T., Carroll, R., Rose, S. B., Morgan, S. J., Garrett, S. M., & McKinlay, E. M. (2022). "We just want to be treated normally and to have that healthcare that comes along with it": Rainbow young people's experiences of primary care in Aotearoa New Zealand. Youth, 2(4), 691-704. doi: 10.3390/youth2040049
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McKinlay, E., Hilder, J., Hood, F., Morgan, S., Barthow, C., Gray, B., Huthwaite, M., Weatherall, M., Crane, J., Krebs, J., & Pullon, S. (2022). Uncertainty and certainty: Perceptions and experiences of prediabetes in New Zealand primary care: A qualitative study. Journal of Primary Health Care, 14(2), 138-145. doi: 10.1071/HC21066
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Officer, T. N., Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., Pledger, M., Russell, L., … McBride-Henry, K. (2022). COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and wellbeing: Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020. International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health, 19(4), 2269. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042269
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Officer, T. N., McKinlay, E., Imlach, F., Kennedy, J., Churchward, M., & McBride-Henry, K. (2022). Experiences of New Zealand public health messaging while in lockdown. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/1753-6405.13297
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Askerud, A., Jaye, C., Doolan-Noble, F., & McKinlay, E. (2021). What do they get out of it? Considering a partnership model in health service research. Primary Health Care Research & Development, 22, e14. doi: 10.1017/S1463423621000141
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Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., Morris, C., Pledger, M., Cumming, J., & McBride-Henry, K. (2021). E-prescribing and access to prescription medicines during lockdown: Experience of patients in Aotearoa/New Zealand. BMC Family Practice, 22, 140. doi: 10.1186/s12875-021-01490-0
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Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Kennedy, J., Pledger, M., Middleton, L., Cumming, J., & McBride-Henry, K. (2021). Seeking healthcare during lockdown: Challenges, opportunities and lessons for the future. International Journal of Health Policy & Management. Advance online publication. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2021.26
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Kennedy, J., Kim, H., Moran, S., & McKinlay, E. (2021). Qualitative experiences of primary health care and social care professionals with refugee-like migrants and former quota refugees in New Zealand. Australian Journal of Primary Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1071/py20285
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McKinlay, E. M., Brown, M., Wallace, D., Morris, C., & Garnett, A. (2021). A match made in heaven: Exploring views of medicine students, pharmacy interns and facilitators in an interprofessional medicines pilot study. Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences & Practice, 19(1), 3. Retrieved from https://nsuworks.nova.edu/ijahsp/vol19/iss1/3
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McKinlay, E., Banks, D., Coleman, K., Darlow, B., Dungey, G., Farr, T., Fyfe, R., Gray, B., Kemp, L., … Morris, C., Myers, J., … Perry, M., … Pullon, S. (2021). Keeping it going: The importance of delivering interprofessional education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Primary Health Care, 13(4), 359-369. doi: 10.1071/HC21070
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McKinlay, E., Morgan, S., Garrett, S., Dunlop, A., & Pullon, S. (2021). Young peoples’ perspectives about care in a youth-friendly general practice. Journal of Primary Health Care, 13(2), 157-164. doi: 10.1071/HC20134
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McKinlay, E., Vaipuna, K., O'Toole, T., Golds, H., & Adams, A. (2021). Doing what it takes: A qualitative study of New Zealand carers' experiences of giving home-based palliative care to loved ones. New Zealand Medical Journal, 134(1533), 21-32. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
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McKinlay, E., White, K., Garrett, S., Gladman, T., & Pullon, S. (2021). Work-place cancer and palliative care interprofessional education: Experiences of students and staff. Journal of Interprofessional Care. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2021.1981259
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Morgan, S., Pullon, S., McKinlay, E., Garrett, S., Kennedy, J., & Watson, B. (2021). Collaborative care in primary care: The influence of practice interior architecture on informal face-to-face communication: An observational study. HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal, 14(1), 190-209. doi: 10.1177/1937586720939665
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Morris, C., Wong, M., & McKinlay, E. (2021). A qualitative study of community pharmacists' perceptions of their role in primary mental health care in New Zealand. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice, 29, 499-507. doi: 10.1093/ijpp/riab039
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Pullon, S., Garrett, S., Garnett, A., Schwass, E. R., McKinlay, E., Ashworth, N., & Darlow, B. (2021). Five years on: Influences on early career health professionals from a rural interprofessional pre-registration immersion program. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 29, 146-157. doi: 10.1111/ajr.12705
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Rose, S. B., Garrett, S. M., McKinlay, E. M., & Morgan, S. J. (2021). 'Be nice to us, we're still learning': An online survey of young people in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand, about unmet need for sexual health care and improving access to services. Sexual Health, 18(5), 394-404. doi: 10.1071/sh21092
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Rose, S. B., Garrett, S. M., McKinlay, E. M., & Morgan, S. J. (2021). Access to sexual healthcare during New Zealand's COVID-19 lockdown: Cross-sectional online survey of 15–24-year-olds in a high deprivation region. BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health, 47, 277-284. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2020-200986
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Rose, S. B., Garrett, S. M., McKinlay, E. M., & Morgan, S. J. (2021). Experience of sexual healthcare by Māori and non-Māori young people: An online survey of 15-24 year olds in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand. International Journal of Sexual Health. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/19317611.2021.1926041
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., Grainger, R., Hudson, B., Briggs, A. M., Abbott, J. H., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Stakeholder views about a novel consumer health resource for knee osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis & Cartilage Open, 2, 100058. doi: 10.1016/j.ocarto.2020.100058
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Garrett, S., Pullon, S., Morgan, S., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Collaborative care in 'Youth One Stop Shops' in New Zealand: Hidden, time-consuming, essential. Journal of Child Health Care, 24(2), 180-194. doi: 10.1177/1367493519847030
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Goodyear-Smith, F., Stokes, T., McKinlay, E., Nixon, G., Lack, L., Fortier, R., & Pullon, S. (2020). New Zealand general practice registrars' views on their academic learning needs during vocational training: Online survey. Education for Primary Care, 31(3), 136-144. doi: 10.1080/14739879.2020.1729250
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Imlach, F., McKinlay, E., Middleton, L., Kennedy, J., Pledger, M., Russell, L., … McBride-Henry, K. (2020). Telehealth consultations in general practice during a pandemic lockdown: Survey and interviews on patient experiences and preferences. BMC Family Practice, 21(1), 269. doi: 10.1186/s12875-020-01336-1
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Kennedy, J. D., Moran, S., Garrett, S., Stanley, J., Visser, J., & McKinlay, E. (2020). Refugee-like migrants have similar health needs to refugees: A New Zealand post-settlement cohort study. BJGP Open, 4(1), bjgpopen20X101013. doi: 10.3399/bjgpopen20X101013
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McKinlay, E., Brown, M., Beckingsale, L., Burrow, M., Coleman, K., Darlow, B., Donovan, S., … Hilder, J., Neser, H., Perry, M., … Pullon, S. (2020). Forming inter-institutional partnerships to offer pre-registration IPE: A focus group study. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 34(3), 380-387. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2019.1685476
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McKinlay, E. M., Moran, S. V., Morgan, S. J., Sari, P., Kerridge, J. M., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2019). What does palliative care look like in a New Zealand aged residential care facility when patients die are admitted to die? New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1505), 14-28. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
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McKinlay, E., McDonald, J., Darlow, B., & Perry, M. (2019). The social networks of New Zealand patients with multimorbidity and the work of those nominated as their 'significant supporters': An exploratory study. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27, 392-399. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12657
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McKinlay, E., White, K., McChesney, P., Hardie, C., Higgs, R., Hilder, J., & Gallagher, P. (2019). Interprofessional education for cancer care. Clinical Teacher, 16, 519-524. doi: 10.1111/tct.12985
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Morgan, S., Pullon, S., Garrett, S., & McKinlay, E. (2019). Interagency collaborative care for young people with complex needs: Front-line staff perspectives. Health & Social Care in the Community, 27, 1019-1030. doi: 10.1111/hsc.12719
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Darlow, B., Brown, M., Thompson, B., Hudson, B., Grainger, R., McKinlay, E., & Abbott, J. H. (2018). Living with osteoarthritis is a balancing act: An exploration of patients' beliefs about. BMC Rheumatology, 2, 15. doi: 10.1186/s41927-018-0023-x
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McKinlay, E., Young, J., & Gray, B. (2018). General practice and patients' views of the social networks of patients with multimorbidity. Journal of Primary Health Care, 10(3), 258-266. doi: 10.1071/HC17050
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Darlow, B., McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Beckingsale, L., Coleman, K., Perry, M., & Pullon, S. (2017). Building and expanding interprofessional teaching teams. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9(1), 29-33. doi: 10.1071/HC16053
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McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2017). Complex home care: Challenges arising from the blurring of boundaries between family and professional care. Kōtuitui, 12(2), 246-255. doi: 10.1080/1177083X.2017.1373681
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McDonald, J., McKinlay, E., Keeling, S., & Levack, W. (2017). The 'wayfinding' experience of family carers who learn to manage technical health procedures at home: A grounded theory study. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 31(4), 850-858. doi: 10.1111/scs.12406
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McKinlay, E. M., Morgan, S. J., Gray, B. V., Macdonald, L. M., & Pullon, S. R. H. (2017). Exploring interprofessional, interagency multimorbidity care: Case study based observational research. Journal of Comorbidity, 7(1), 64-78. doi: 10.15256/joc.2017.7.103
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McKinlay, E., Gallagher, P., Jones, B., Macdonald, L., & Barthow, C. (2017). Crossing professional cultures: A qualitative study of nurses working in a medical school. Contemporary Nurse, 53(6), 633-646. doi: 10.1080/10376178.2017.1416304
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McKinlay, E., McDonald, J., Darlow, B., & Perry, M. (2017). Social networks of patients with multimorbidity: A qualitative study of patients' and supporters' views. Journal of Primary Health Care, 9(2), 153-161. doi: 10.1071/HC16062
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