Conducting fieldwork for investigating technology use in healthcare
is a challenging undertaking, and yet there is little in the way of
community support and guidance for conducting these studies. There
is a need for better knowledge sharing and resources to facilitate
learning. This is the second of two volumes designed as a
collective graduate guidebook for conducting fieldwork in
healthcare. This volume brings together thematic chapters that draw
out issues and lessons learned from practical experience.
Researchers who have first-hand experience of conducting healthcare
fieldwork collaborated to write these chapters. This volume
contains insights, tips, and tricks from studies in clinical and
non-clinical environments, from hospital to home. This volume
starts with an introduction to the ethics and governance procedures
a researcher might encounter when conducting fieldwork in this
sensitive study area. Subsequent chapters address specific aspects
of conducting situated healthcare research. Chapters on readying
the researcher and relationships in the medical domain break down
some of the complex social aspects of this type of research. They
are followed by chapters on the practicalities of collecting data
and implementing interventions, which focus on domain-specific
issues that may arise. Finally, we close the volume by discussing
the management of impact in healthcare fieldwork. The guidance
contained in these chapters enables new researchers to form their
project plans and also their contingency plans in this complex and
challenging domain. For more experienced researchers, it offers
advice and support through familiar stories and experiences. For
supervisors and teachers, it offers a source of reference and
debate. Together with the first volume, Fieldwork for Healthcare:
Case Studies Investigating Human Factors in Computing systems,
these books provide a substantive resource on how to conduct
fieldwork in healthcare. Table of Contents: Preface /
Acknowledgments / Ethics, Governance, and Patient and Public
Involvement in Healthcare / Readying the Researcher for Fieldwork
in Healthcare / Establishing and Maintaining Relationships in
Healthcare Fields / Practicalities of Data Collection in Healthcare
Fieldwork / Healthcare Intervention Studies "In the Wild" / Impact
of Fieldwork in Healthcare: Understanding Impact on Researchers,
Research, Practice, and Beyond / References / Biographies
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