Displays of authority in the clinical consultation: A linguistic ethnographic study of the electronic patient record

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 118, Issue C, 2014, Pages 17-26

  Swinglehurst, Deborah ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authority; Electronic patient record; Health communication; Linguistic ethnography; Primary health care; UK

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PRESCRIPTIVE AUTHORITY; UNITED KINGDOM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; VIDEORECORDING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; COMMUNICATION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 84927135511     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.07.045     Document Type: Article

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