Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork': Using Goffman's theory of impression management to illuminate interprofessional practice on hospital wards

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1595-1602

  Lewin, Simon ^a   Reeves, Scott ^b,c,d  

^a NORWEGIAN KNOWLEDGE CENTRE FOR THE HEALTH SERVICES   (Norway)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Goffman; Hospital; Impression management; Interprofessional collaboration; Teamwork; UK, nurses, doctors

Indexed keywords

HEALTH WORKER; HOSPITAL SECTOR; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGY;

ARTICLE; DOCTOR NURSE RELATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEAMWORK; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WARD;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHYSICIAN-NURSE RELATIONS;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79955963283     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.03.037     Document Type: Article

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