Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of boxes -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part 1 Ideas -- 1 Introduction: why this book? -- 2 Qualitative evidence synthesis and conceptual development -- 3 The life-project of personal wellbeing: modern healthcare and the individuality of health -- 4 Socio-narratology and the clinical encounter between human beings -- 5 Interrupted body projects and the narrative reconstruction of self -- 6 The Fourth Research Paradigm: activating researchers for real world need -- Part 2 Systems -- 7 Slack resources in healthcare systems: waste or resilience? -- 8 Using qualitative methods to understand resilience in complex systems -- 9 Qualitative assessment to improve everyday activities: work-as-imagined and work-as-done -- 10 Narrativizing cancer patients' longitudinal experiences of care: qualitative inquiry into lived and online melanoma stories -- 11 Look the other way: patient-centred care begins with care for our physicians. A dialogic narrative analysis of three personal essays -- 12 Resilient healthcare in refractory epilepsy: illuminating successful people-centred patient care -- Part 3 Solutions -- 13 Sensemaking as a strategy for managing uncertainty: change and surprise in hospital settings -- 14 Simulation to solve health system problems -- 15 Cross-boundary teaming to establish resilience among isolated 'silos' -- 16 "What on earth is going on and what should I do now?": sensemaking as a qualitative process -- 17 Deep inside the genomics revolution: on the frontlines of care -- 18 Much more than old wine in new bottles: Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) for healthcare improvement -- 19 Conclusion: on progress, directions and signposts to a transformed healthcare system -- Index.

Drawing on the knowledge and experiences of world-renowned scientists and healthcare professionals, this important book brings together academic, medical and health systems accounts of the impact of applying qualitative research methods to transform healthcare behaviours, systems and services.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.