Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research.
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- WILEY
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- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Sociol Health Illn, 2016, 38, (2), pp. 198-215
- Issue Date:
- 2016-02
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dc.contributor.author | Waring, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Allen, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Braithwaite, J | |
dc.contributor.author |
Sandall, J https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2000-743X |
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dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-12T06:21:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-01-12T06:21:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-02 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sociol Health Illn, 2016, 38, (2), pp. 198-215 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0141-9889 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1467-9566 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10453/152990 | |
dc.description.abstract | Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of ergonomics and human factors. These have enabled significant advances in our understanding and management of quality and safety. However, a parallel and at time neglected sociological literature on clinical quality and safety is presented as offering additional, complementary, and at times critical insights on the problems of quality and safety. This review explores the development and contributions of both the mainstream and more sociological approaches to safety. It shows that where mainstream approaches often focus on the influence of human and local environment factors in shaping quality, a sociological perspective can deepen knowledge of the wider social, cultural and political factors that contextualise the clinical micro-system. It suggests these different perspectives can easily complement one another, offering a more developed and layered understanding of quality and safety. It also suggests that the sociological literature can bring to light important questions about the limits of the more mainstream approaches and ask critical questions about the role of social inequality, power and control in the framing of quality and safety. | |
dc.format | Print-Electronic | |
dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | WILEY | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Sociol Health Illn | |
dc.relation.isbasedon | 10.1111/1467-9566.12391 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
dc.subject | 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 1608 Sociology, 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields | |
dc.subject.classification | Public Health | |
dc.subject.mesh | Attitude of Health Personnel | |
dc.subject.mesh | Clinical Protocols | |
dc.subject.mesh | Delivery of Health Care | |
dc.subject.mesh | Health Services Research | |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | |
dc.subject.mesh | Medical Errors | |
dc.subject.mesh | Organizational Culture | |
dc.subject.mesh | Patient Safety | |
dc.subject.mesh | Policy | |
dc.subject.mesh | Quality of Health Care | |
dc.subject.mesh | Safety | |
dc.subject.mesh | Safety Management | |
dc.subject.mesh | Sociology, Medical | |
dc.subject.mesh | Humans | |
dc.subject.mesh | Clinical Protocols | |
dc.subject.mesh | Attitude of Health Personnel | |
dc.subject.mesh | Sociology, Medical | |
dc.subject.mesh | Safety | |
dc.subject.mesh | Safety Management | |
dc.subject.mesh | Medical Errors | |
dc.subject.mesh | Health Services Research | |
dc.subject.mesh | Organizational Culture | |
dc.subject.mesh | Delivery of Health Care | |
dc.subject.mesh | Quality of Health Care | |
dc.subject.mesh | Policy | |
dc.subject.mesh | Patient Safety | |
dc.title | Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research. | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
utslib.citation.volume | 38 | |
utslib.location.activity | England | |
utslib.for | 1117 Public Health and Health Services | |
utslib.for | 1608 Sociology | |
utslib.for | 2202 History and Philosophy of Specific Fields | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health | |
pubs.organisational-group | /University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Health/Midwifery | |
utslib.copyright.status | closed_access | * |
dc.date.updated | 2022-01-12T06:21:55Z | |
pubs.issue | 2 | |
pubs.publication-status | Published | |
pubs.volume | 38 | |
utslib.citation.issue | 2 |
Abstract:
Over the last two decades healthcare quality and safety have risen to the fore of health policy and research. This has largely been informed by theoretical and empirical ideas found in the fields of ergonomics and human factors. These have enabled significant advances in our understanding and management of quality and safety. However, a parallel and at time neglected sociological literature on clinical quality and safety is presented as offering additional, complementary, and at times critical insights on the problems of quality and safety. This review explores the development and contributions of both the mainstream and more sociological approaches to safety. It shows that where mainstream approaches often focus on the influence of human and local environment factors in shaping quality, a sociological perspective can deepen knowledge of the wider social, cultural and political factors that contextualise the clinical micro-system. It suggests these different perspectives can easily complement one another, offering a more developed and layered understanding of quality and safety. It also suggests that the sociological literature can bring to light important questions about the limits of the more mainstream approaches and ask critical questions about the role of social inequality, power and control in the framing of quality and safety.
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