An ethnographic study of classifying and accounting for risk at the sharp end of medical wards

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 362-369

  Dixon Woods, Mary ^a   Suokas, Anu ^a   Pitchforth, Emma ^b   Tarrant, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hospital staff; Hospitals; Organisations; Patient safety; Risk; UK

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH RISK; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PERCEPTION; SAFETY;

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; ORGANIZATIONAL RESTRUCTURING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PROFESSIONAL IMAGE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL BELIEF; UNITED KINGDOM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROCEDURES; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE; PATIENTS' ROOMS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650714214     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.025     Document Type: Article

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