Keel2016a

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Keel2016a
BibType ARTICLE
Key Keel2016a
Author(s) Sara Keel, Veronika Schoeb
Title Professionals’ embodied orientations towards patients in discharge-planning meetings and their impact on patient participation
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Tag(s) Conversation Analysis, discharge planning, interdisciplinary meetings, rehabilitation, patient participation
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Year 2016
Language English
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Journal Communication & Medicine
Volume 13
Number 1
Pages 115–134
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DOI 10.1558/cam.21624
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Abstract

To enhance the patient’s involvement, clinical guidelines on rehabilitation require the patient’s participation in the entire rehabilitation process, including discharge planning (DP). However, very little is known about how this institutional demand is actually dealt with in everyday clinical practice. Adopting a conversation analytic (CA) approach, our paper tackles the matter by looking at interdisciplinary entry meetings (IEMs) at a rehabilitation clinic in German-speaking Switzerland. Our study is based on audio-visual recordings of 11 IEMs, whose central aim is to formulate patients’ rehabilitation goals and to plan their discharge. The paper offers a detailed analysis of the embodied practices through which healthcare professionals seek to involve patients in the IEMs, and also investigates patients’ responses. Our analysis shows that, although carefully elaborated, the professionals’ practices do not elicit more than reactive patient participation. The paper argues that this is due to (1) the practices’ temporal positioning within the overall activity structure of the meeting – they are deployed when no important decision is at stake, projecting minimal patient participation on the phases in which decisions are taken – and (2) the actions the practices project on the next turn: confirmation, acknowledgement or ratification of what has previously been proposed by professionals.

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