TY - GEN
T1 - Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality
AU - Allen, Davina
AU - Braithwaite, Jeffrey
AU - Sandall, Jane
AU - Waring, Justin
PY - 2016/2/2
Y1 - 2016/2/2
N2 - The contributions to this collection address technologies, practices, experiences and the organisation of quality and safety across a wide range of healthcare contexts. Spanning three continents, from hospital to community, maternity to mental health, they shine a light into the boardrooms, back offices and front-lines of healthcare, offering sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians and patients. We review these articles and consider how they contribute to some of the dilemmas that confront mainstream approaches to quality and safety and then look ahead to outline future lines of sociological inquiry to progress the theory and practice of quality and safety.
AB - The contributions to this collection address technologies, practices, experiences and the organisation of quality and safety across a wide range of healthcare contexts. Spanning three continents, from hospital to community, maternity to mental health, they shine a light into the boardrooms, back offices and front-lines of healthcare, offering sociological insights from the perspectives of managers, clinicians and patients. We review these articles and consider how they contribute to some of the dilemmas that confront mainstream approaches to quality and safety and then look ahead to outline future lines of sociological inquiry to progress the theory and practice of quality and safety.
KW - Healthcare
KW - Quality and safety
KW - Sociology
KW - Theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84956823025&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9566.12390
DO - 10.1111/1467-9566.12390
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84956823025
SN - 0141-9889
VL - 38
SP - 181
EP - 197
JO - Sociology of Health and Illness
JF - Sociology of Health and Illness
ER -
