Guidance on Performing Focused Ethnographies with an Emphasis on Healthcare Research

Autor/inn/en	Higginbottom, Gina M. A.; Pillay, Jennifer J.; Boadu, Nana Y.
Titel	Guidance on Performing Focused Ethnographies with an Emphasis on Healthcare Research
Quelle	In: Qualitative Report, 18 (2013), Artikel 17 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1052-0147
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Qualitative Research; Research Methodology; Health Services; Sampling; Sample Size; Data Collection; Data Analysis; Researchers; Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Qualitative Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Health service; Gesundheitsdienst; Gesundheitswesen; Data capture; Datensammlung; Auswertung; Researcher; Forscher; Rollen
Abstract	Focused ethnographies can have meaningful and useful application in primary care, community, or hospital healthcare practice, and are often used to determine ways to improve care and care processes. They can be pragmatic and efficient ways to capture data on a specific topic of importance to individual clinicians or clinical specialties. While many examples of focused ethnographies are available in the literature, there is a limited availability of guidance documents for conducting this research. This paper defines focused ethnographies, locates them within the ethnographic genre, justifies their use in healthcare research, and outlines the methodological processes including those related to sampling, data collection and maintaining rigour. It also identifies and provides a summary of some recent focused ethnographies conducted in healthcare research. While the emphasis is placed on healthcare research, focused ethnographies can be applicable to any discipline whenever there is a desire to explore specific cultural perspectives held by sub-groups of people within a context-specific and problem-focused framework. (Contains 1 figure, 1 box, and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10