Main description:

The Sociology of Healthcare Safety and Quality presents a series of research-informed readings on the sociological contributions of technologies, practices, experiences, and organizational quality and safety across a range of healthcare contexts. * Represents the first collection of peer-reviewed research articles showcasing ways that sociology can contribute to the ongoing policy concern of healthcare safety and quality * Features original contributions from leading experts in healthcare related fields from three continents * Reveals the state-of-the art in sociological analyses of contemporary healthcare safety and quality along with future directions in the field * Offers sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians, and patients

Contents:

Notes on contributors vii 1 Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality 1 Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Jane Sandall and Justin Waring 2 Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research 18 Justin Waring, Davina Allen, Jeffrey Braithwaite and Jane Sandall 3 What is the role of individual accountability in patient safety? A multi-site ethnographic study 36 Emma-Louise Aveling, Michael Parker and Mary Dixon-Woods 4 Enacting corporate governance of healthcare safety and quality: a dramaturgy of hospital boards in England 52 Tim Freeman, Ross Millar, Russell Mannion and Huw Davies 5 The social practice of rescue: the safety implications of acute illness trajectories and patient categorisation in medical and maternity settings 69 Nicola Mackintosh and Jane Sandall 6 Sensemaking and the co-production of safety: a qualitative study of primary medical care patients 87 Penny Rhodes, Ruth McDonald, Stephen Campbell, Gavin Daker-White and Caroline Sanders 7 Chains of (dis)trust: exploring the underpinnings of knowledge-sharing and quality care across mental health services 102 Patrick R. Brown and Michael W. Calnan 8 Spatio-temporal elements of articulation work in the achievement of repeat prescribing safety in UK general practice 121 Suzanne Grant, Jessica Mesman and Bruce Guthrie 9 Infections and interaction rituals in the organisation: clinician accounts of speaking up or remaining silent in the face of threats to patient safety 140 Julia E. Szymczak Index 155