Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
7338090 Social Science & Medicine 2013 8 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Creating improvements in care settings demands specific situating work, which can be conceptualized as translation. ► Gathering, materializing and training are inscriptions that play crucial roles in the sustainability of improvements. ► Sustaining quality improvement in healthcare settings needs alignment of work at different levels of care organizations. ► Patient work is inscribed in different ways in quality improvement with diverging consequences for performing choice. ► Ethnographic methods are essential to better understand the complex interactions of quality improvements in care settings.
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