Everyday practices at the medical ward: A 16-month ethnographic field study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wolf, Axel ^a,c   Ekman, Inger ^a,c   Dellenborg, Lisen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b Swedish Institute for Health Sciences   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Care continuity.; Care environment; Interprofessional relationship; Moral stress; Person centered care; Professional patient relations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANPOWER; MEDICAL STAFF; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEX RATIO; STANDARD; STATISTICS; SWEDEN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT-CENTERED CARE; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWEDEN;

EID: 84863108696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-184     Document Type: Article

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