Lehtimaja2021

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Lehtimaja2021
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lehtimaja2022
Author(s) Inkeri Lehtimaja, Salla Kurhila
Title Practices of patient participation: Getting a turn during hospital ward rounds
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Tag(s) EMCA, Conversation Analysis, Medical interaction, Multimodality, Multi-party conversation, Participation framework, Patient initiatives, Sequential organization
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Year 2022
Language English
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Journal Discourse Studies
Volume 24
Number 1
Pages 24-46
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DOI 10.1177/14614456211037452
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Abstract

Patient participation is a fundamental principle in modern Western health care, but not necessarily simple to achieve. During hospital ward rounds, patient participation is further hindered by the multi-party nature of the encounter: at times, members of the medical team talk with each other rather than with the patient. This article examines patients’ opportunities to participate in ward round conversations when the patient is not the addressed recipient. The data consist of 3 hours of video-recorded ward rounds in a Finnish hospital. Using conversation analysis, we study patients’ practices for getting a turn in different sequential environments. The patients monitor the ongoing conversation and exploit its sequential organisation by producing responsive turns and repair initiations, thus becoming active participants. They also produce their own initiatives, although sequential and multimodal constraints affect their possibilities for modifying the participation framework. The results of this study can be exploited to promote patient participation.

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