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dc.contributor.authorKrohne, Kariannen_US
dc.contributor.authorTorres, Sandraen_US
dc.contributor.authorSlettebø, Åshilden_US
dc.contributor.authorBergland, Astriden_US
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-06T11:38:07Z
dc.date.available2014-02-06T11:38:07Z
dc.date.issued2013en_US
dc.identifier.citationKrohne, K., Torres, S., Slettebø, Å. & Bergland, A. (2013). Individualizing Standardized Tests: Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists' Test Practices in a Geriatric Setting. Qualitative Health Research, 23(9), 1168-1178. doi:10.1177/1049732313499073en_US
dc.identifier.issn1049-7323en_US
dc.identifier.otherFRIDAID 1049734en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10642/1812
dc.description.abstractIn assessing geriatric patients’ functional status, health care professionals use a number of standardized tests. These tests have defined administration procedures that restrict communication and interaction with patients. In this article, we explore the experiences of occupational therapists and physiotherapists acting as standardized test administrators. Drawing on fieldwork, interviews with physiotherapists and occupational therapists, and observations of test situations on acute geriatric wards, we suggest that the test situation generates a tension between what standardization demands and what individualization requires. Our findings illustrate how physiotherapists and occupational therapists navigate between adherence to the test standard and meeting what they consider to be the individual patient’s needs in the test situation. We problematize this navigation, and argue that the health care professional’s use of relational competence is the means to reach and maintain individualizationen_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesQualitative Health Research;23(9)en_US
dc.subjectEvidence-based practiceen_US
dc.subjectGeriatricsen_US
dc.subjectHealth care professionalsen_US
dc.subjectOlder peopleen_US
dc.subjectRelationshipsen_US
dc.subjectHealth careen_US
dc.titleIndividualizing standardized tests: physiotherapists and occupational therapists' test practices in a geriatric settingen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
dc.description.versionUtgivers pdfen_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732313499073


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