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Fieldwork for healthcare : guidance for investigating human factors in computing systems /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Blandford, Ann (Editor), Furniss, Dominic (Editor), Mentis, Helena Marie (Editor), O'Kane, Aisling Ann (Editor), Randell, Rebecca (Editor), Taneva, Svetlena (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, California (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, 2015.
Series:Synthesis lectures on assistive, rehabilitative, and health-preserving technologies ; # 7.
Subjects:
Human-computer interaction.
Medical care > Fieldwork.
Medical instruments and apparatus.
HCI
ethnography
fieldwork
guidance
health
healthcare
human-computer interaction
medical devices
methodology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface / editors: Dominic Furniss, Rebecca Randell, Aisling Ann O'Kane, Svetlena Taneva, Helena Mentis, and Ann Blandford
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Ethics, governance, and patient and public involvement in healthcare / Dominic Furniss, Rebecca Randell, Svetlena Taneva, Helena Mentis, Daniel Wolstenholme, Andy Dearden, Aisling Ann O'Kane, and Ann Blandford
  • 1.1 What do I need to know about research ethics in healthcare?
  • 1.1.1 The historical contexts that drive healthcare's ethical principles
  • 1.1.2 Research governance in healthcare
  • 1.2 How do I get research ethics approval?
  • 1.2.1 The benefits of research ethics review
  • 1.2.2 Frustrations caused by research ethics review: how long will it take?
  • 1.2.3 Does my study need full ethical review and approval?
  • 1.2.4 Experiences and lessons learned in handling research ethics approval in healthcare
  • 1.3 How could patient and public involvement (PPI) help me?
  • 1.3.1 Participation, engagement, and involvement
  • 1.3.2 Involving patients, public, and practitioners
  • 1.3.3 Involvement: when and how?
  • 1.4 Summary
  • 2. Readying the researcher for fieldwork in healthcare / Heather Underwood, Ross Thomson, Anjum Chagpar, and Dominic Furniss
  • 2.1 How can reflecting on my role and identity help my work?
  • 2.1.1 What are your personal and researcher identities?
  • 2.1.2 What are your roles and responsibilities in the research context?
  • 2.1.3 Reflexivity: how does your perspective impact your research?
  • 2.2 What emotional challenges will I face in fieldwork?
  • 2.2.1 What is your personal level of emotional attachment or detachment?
  • 2.2.2 Are you comfortable with blood, death, birth, illness, nudity small spaces, providing emotional support?
  • 2.2.3 How do you handle conflict?
  • 2.3 How do I stay safe when doing fieldwork?
  • 2.3.1 What are the risks to your safety?
  • 2.3.2 What are the risks to the participants' safety?
  • 2.3.3 What are the health risks involved with a technology intervention?
  • 2.4 Summary
  • 3. Establishing and maintaining relationships in healthcare fields / Svetlena Taneva, Aisling Ann O'Kane, Raj Ratwani, Brian Hilligoss, Anja Thieme, and Kristina Groth
  • 3.1 What healthcare dynamics may affect my study?
  • 3.1.1 What do I need to know about the dynamics within the varied mix of professions?
  • 3.1.2 How do clinical specialities impact my research?
  • 3.1.3 What is the role of hierarchies in healthcare?
  • 3.1.4 What do I need to know about the broader context of healthcare?
  • 3.1.5 What are the different types of clinical settings?
  • 3.1.6 What is a hospital site like?
  • 3.2 How do I negotiate access to the field?
  • 3.2.1 How do I get my foot in the door?
  • 3.2.2 Who could be a key study enabler for my research agenda?
  • 3.3 How do I establish relationships with healthcare staff?
  • 3.3.1 How do I make myself known in the intended study environment?
  • 3.3.2 How do I present my study?
  • 3.3.3 How do I recruit clinician participants?
  • 3.4 How do I manage relationships with patients and caregivers?
  • 3.4.1 How do I learn about target patient populations before starting my study?
  • 3.4.2 How do I gain access to patients inside clinical settings?
  • 3.4.3 How do I gain access to patients and caregivers outside clinical settings?
  • 3.4.4 How do I maintain the relationship during data collection?
  • 3.5 Summary
  • 4. Practicalities of data collection in healthcare fieldwork / Katherine Sellen, Aleksandra Sarcevic, Yunan Chen, Rebecca Randell, Xiaomu Zhou, Deborah Chan, and Atish Rajkomar
  • 4.1 How might different perspectives on data affect my study?
  • 4.2 What data collection techniques will help me answer my research questions?
  • 4.2.1 What data collection methods can I use to understand practices, interactions, and behaviours?
  • 4.2.2 What methods can I use to gather detailed data on interactions with technology?
  • 4.3 What other sources of data should I be aware of?
  • 4.3.1 Clinical data
  • 4.3.2 Unexpected data
  • 4.3.3 Remote data and other strategies
  • 4.4 How much data should I collect?
  • 4.4.1 Sampling strategies
  • 4.4.2 Triangulation
  • 4.5 Summary
  • 5. Healthcare intervention studies "in the wild" / Mads Frost, Cecily Morrison, Daniel Wolstenholme, and Andy Dearden
  • 5.1 What should I think about when designing a study?
  • 5.1.1 How do I define and refine my research aims?
  • 5.1.2 What level of evidence is appropriate to your idea?
  • 5.1.3 What other issues should I consider?
  • 5.2 How do I navigate ethics and governance procedures for intervention studies?
  • 5.2.1 How do I handle iteration and ethics?
  • 5.2.2 What healthcare research terminology should I know?
  • 5.3 How do I choose and access a healthcare setting?
  • 5.3.1 How do I choose a research setting?
  • 5.3.2 How can I negotiate access?
  • 5.4 What should I consider when building and deploying technology in healthcare?
  • 5.4.1 What functional and non-functional challenges should I be aware of?
  • 5.4.2 How can I generate staff and patient buy-in?
  • 5.4.3 How should I support an ongoing study?
  • 5.4.4 How should I withdraw from a study?
  • 5.5 Summary
  • 6. Impact of fieldwork in healthcare: understanding impact on researchers, research, practice, and beyond / Helena Mentis, Svetlena Taneva, Ann Blandford, Dominic Furniss, Raj Ratwani, Rebecca Randell, and Anjum Chagpar
  • 6.1 Why is impact important?
  • 6.2 When should I consider impact?
  • 6.3 What types of impact are feasible?
  • 6.3.1 Impacting researchers and practitioners
  • 6.3.2 Impacting scientific knowledge
  • 6.3.3 Impacting the design of technology
  • 6.3.4 Impacting practice
  • 6.3.5 Impacting society
  • 6.3.6 Impacting the economy
  • 6.4 How can we transfer the findings of fieldwork to achieve impact?
  • 6.4.1 Writing for different audiences
  • 6.4.2 Speaking with administrative decision makers
  • 6.5 Summary
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • References
  • Biographies
  • Fieldwork for healthcare: Volume 1.