Browsing NTNU Open by Journals "Health"
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Care pathways as boundary objects between primary and secondary care: Experiences from Norwegian home care services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)The need for integration of healthcare services and collaboration across organisational boundaries is highlighted as a major challenge within healthcare in many countries. Care pathways are often presented as a solution ... -
Causation, historiographic approaches and the investigation of serious adverse incidents in mental health settings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)To improve the safety of healthcare systems, it is necessary to understand harm-related events that occur in these systems. In mental health services, particular attention is paid to harm arising from the actions of patients ... -
Coding for quality? Accountability work in standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs)
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)A vital part of standardised care pathways is the possibility to measure performance through different indicators – for example, codes. In this article, based on interviews with health personnel in a project evaluating the ... -
‘Don’t freak out if you get a letter saying cancer patient pathways!’: Communication work between different demands in cancer care
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article explores healthcare professionals’ experiences of their work with patient communication in standardised cancer patient pathways (CPPs). The theoretical and methodological framework for this study is institutional ... -
Online risk numbers -helpful, meaningless or simply wrong? - Reflections on online risk calculators
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Among the instruments offered to citizens via digital media are risk calculators, aiming at identifying individuals at high risk of various diseases. These calculators present us with both epistemological and socioethical ...