Physicians’ progress notes
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Physicians’ progress notes. / Bansler, Jørgen P.; Havn, Erling C.; Mønsted, Troels; Schmidt, Kjeld; Svendsen, Jesper Hastrup.
ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2013, Paphos, Cyprus. ed. / Olav W. Bertelsen; Luigina Ciolfi; Maria Antonietta Grasso; George Angelos Papadopoulos. Springer, 2013. p. 123-142.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Physicians’ progress notes
AU - Bansler, Jørgen P.
AU - Havn, Erling C.
AU - Mønsted, Troels
AU - Schmidt, Kjeld
AU - Svendsen, Jesper Hastrup
N1 - Conference code: 13
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Thispaperexaminesphysicians’progressnotes,anartifactthat,inspite of its obvious importance in the coordination of cooperative work in clinical set- tings, has not been subjected to systematic study under CSCW auspices. While several studies have addressed the role of the medical record in patient care, they have not dealt specifically with the role, structure, and content of the progress notes. As a consequence, CSCW research has not yet taken fully into account the fact that progress notes are coordinative artifacts of a rather special kind, an open-ended chain of prose texts, written sequentially by cooperating physicians for their own use as well as for that of their colleagues. We argue that progress notes are the core of the medical record, in that they marshal and summarize the overwhelming amount of data that is available in the modern hospital environment, and that their narrative format is uniquely adequate for the pivotal epistemic aspect of coopera- tive clinical work: the narrative format enables physicians to not only record ‘facts’ but also—by filtering, interpreting, organizing, and qualifying information—to make sense and act concertedly under conditions of uncertainty and contingency.
AB - Thispaperexaminesphysicians’progressnotes,anartifactthat,inspite of its obvious importance in the coordination of cooperative work in clinical set- tings, has not been subjected to systematic study under CSCW auspices. While several studies have addressed the role of the medical record in patient care, they have not dealt specifically with the role, structure, and content of the progress notes. As a consequence, CSCW research has not yet taken fully into account the fact that progress notes are coordinative artifacts of a rather special kind, an open-ended chain of prose texts, written sequentially by cooperating physicians for their own use as well as for that of their colleagues. We argue that progress notes are the core of the medical record, in that they marshal and summarize the overwhelming amount of data that is available in the modern hospital environment, and that their narrative format is uniquely adequate for the pivotal epistemic aspect of coopera- tive clinical work: the narrative format enables physicians to not only record ‘facts’ but also—by filtering, interpreting, organizing, and qualifying information—to make sense and act concertedly under conditions of uncertainty and contingency.
U2 - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_7
DO - 10.1007/978-1-4471-5346-7_7
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-4471-5345-0
SP - 123
EP - 142
BT - ECSCW 2013
A2 - Bertelsen, Olav W.
A2 - Ciolfi, Luigina
A2 - Grasso, Maria Antonietta
A2 - Papadopoulos, George Angelos
PB - Springer
T2 - 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Y2 - 21 September 2013 through 25 September 2013
ER -
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