Fieldwork for Healthcare
Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing Systems
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User customisation of medical devices: the reality and the possibilities
While studies of office environments have treated the customisation of technology by users as a positive response to the situated nature of work, customisation of devices in the medical domain, and other safet...
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Building a Context Sensitive Telephone: Some Hopes and Pitfalls for Context Sensitive Computing
Although the idea of making technology more context aware is an alluring one, this seemingly simple move hides a great deal of complexity. Even simple examples such as a context sensitive mobile phone which kn...
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Beyond handover: supporting awareness for continuous coverage
Hospitals are required to operate as a continuous system because patient care cannot be temporarily suspended and handover is seen as a key method for enabling this. This paper reports a study of handover in a...
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Variations and Commonalities in Processes of Collaboration: The Need for Multi-Site Workplace Studies
Workplace studies have made a major contribution to the field of CSCW, drawing attention to subtle practices that enable effective collaboration. However, workplace studies typically focus on a single setting,...
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Diagnosis at the microscope: a workplace study of histopathology
Histopathologists diagnose cancer and other diseases by using a microscope to examine glass slides containing thin sections of human tissue. Technological advances mean that it is now possible to digitise the ...
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Finding Balance: Matters of Ethics, Consent, and Emotional Work When Studying Handover in Hospitals
This chapter recounts the experience of undertaking fieldwork across a range of hospital settings as part of a three-year project that developed a model of handover to inform technology design. The specific is...
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Open AccessIntegration of robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication, collaboration, and decision making: a realist process evaluation protocol
Robotic surgery offers many potential benefits for patients. While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots, there are reports that the technology is failing to be introduced...
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Practicalities of Data Collection in Healthcare Fieldwork
When you begin your research project, data collection may not be the focus of your plan as you craft your study design using a theoretical or applied motivation for the work. Once the research begins, however,...
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Impact of Fieldwork in Healthcare: Understanding Impact on Researchers, Research, Practice, and Beyond
This chapter outlines various forms of impact your research can have as well as the steps you can take in determining and ensuring impact. Our motivation in this chapter is to discuss the reasons you should co...
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Ethics, Governance, and Patient and Public Involvement in Healthcare
This chapter introduces you to elements of research design and conduct that often distinguish research in healthcare from other contexts. Researchers often bemoan the laborious ethical and governance procedure...
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Effect of Display Resolution on Time to Diagnosis with Virtual Pathology Slides in a Systematic Search Task
Performing diagnoses using virtual slides can take pathologists significantly longer than with glass slides, presenting a significant barrier to the use of virtual slides in routine practice. Given the benefit...
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Open AccessStrategies for conducting situated studies of technology use in hospitals
Ethnographic methods are widely used for understanding situated practices with technology. When authors present their data gathering methods, they almost invariably focus on the bare essentials. These enable t...
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Open AccessEmbedding robotic surgery into routine practice and impacts on communication and decision making: a review of the experience of surgical teams
While an increasing number of healthcare providers are purchasing surgical robots because of anticipated improvements in patient outcomes, their implementation into practice is highly variable. In robotic surg...
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How relevant is higher-order language deficit (HOLD) to children with complex presentations of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder?
Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is frequently associated with language impairment, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptoms and higher-order language deficit (HOLD); yet, their complex relations...
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Open AccessNetworked information technologies and patient safety: a protocol for a realist synthesis
There is a widespread belief that information technologies will improve diagnosis, treatment and care. Evidence about their effectiveness in health care is, however, mixed. It is not clear why this is the case...
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Open AccessExploring variation in the use of feedback from national clinical audits: a realist investigation
National Clinical Audits (NCAs) are a well-established quality improvement strategy used in healthcare settings. Significant resources, including clinicians’ time, are invested in participating in NCAs, yet th...
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Open AccessHidden labour: the skilful work of clinical audit data collection and its implications for secondary use of data via integrated health IT
Secondary use of data via integrated health information technology is fundamental to many healthcare policies and processes worldwide. However, repurposing data can be problematic and little research has been ...
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Open AccessWorking together: reflections on how to make public involvement in research work
The importance of involving members of the public in the development, implementation and dissemination of research is increasingly recognised. There have been calls to share examples of how this can be done, a...
