dc.contributor.author | Isah, Esther Ebole | |
dc.contributor.author | Byström, Katriina | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-10T10:25:18Z | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-09-04T10:56:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-10T10:25:18Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-09-04T10:56:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Isah EE, Byström K. Enacting workplace information practices: the diverse roles of physicians in a health care team. Information research. 2017;22(1) | language |
dc.identifier.issn | 1368-1613 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/5186 | |
dc.description.abstract | Introduction.
Information practices, i.e. collectively adopted information-related
activities such as needing, seeking, creating, sharing, valuing, and distributing
information, are embedded in the ongoing work routines. In the practice-oriented
research reported here, we have used the cultural-historical activity theory to examine
information practices of physicians in patient care.
Method.
A qualitative, interpretative case study method was applied. Nonparticipant
observations of a team of physicians and interviews with fifteen physicians were
conducted over a period of four months in a university teaching hospital located in a
developing country.
Analysis
. The data was analysed with iterative coding technique and the lens of cultural-
historical activity theory.
Results.
Patient care appears as the central work activity in the hospital and is seen as
embedded into a web of other activity systems in the hospital. It was thus found that work
activity in patient care was a major influencing factor, and that it determines many of the
various information related activities and practices that physicians engage in.
Furthermore, it was found that social positioning of the team members influenced how
information practices were enacted.
Conclusions.
Physicians adopt different roles to enact information in patient care.
Applying cultural-historical activity theory to portray workplace information practices
highlights epistemological postulations that are seldom utilized in research on African
developing countries. | language |
dc.language.iso | en | language |
dc.publisher | Information Research | language |
dc.relation.uri | http://www.informationr.net/ir/22-1/colis/colis1650.html | |
dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative Works License | language |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
dc.subject | Information practices | language |
dc.subject | Physicians | language |
dc.subject | Patient care | language |
dc.title | Enacting workplace information practices: the diverse roles of physicians in a health care team | language |
dc.type | Journal article | language |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | language |
dc.date.updated | 2017-08-10T10:25:18Z | |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | language |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1440645 | |
dc.source.journal | Information research | |