1st Edition
Beyond Patient Pathways How Healthcare Systems Make Patients and Organise Care
Part 1: Reframing Coordination
Introduction to Part 1
1: The Trouble with Coordination: Organisational Challenges and the Seductions of Pathways
2: Reimagining Coordination: Sociological Perspectives
3: Studying Coordination in the Wild: Case, Methods, and Theoretical Framework
Part 2: The Provisional Patient – The Unscheduled Care Assemblage
Introduction to Part 2
4: Calls, Codes, Dispatch: Emergency Medical Services Control Centre Work
5: Between Crisis and Care: Emergency Medical Services Responder Work
6: From Arrival to Admission: Emergency Department Work
7: Evolving Objects: Unscheduled Care Transitions
Summary of Part 2
Part 3: The Definitive Patient – The Acute Care Assemblage
Introduction to Part 3
8: Assessment and Alignment: Preoperative Orthogeriatric Work
9: Bodies and Materials: Operating Department Work
10: Conscripted Objects: Acute Care Transitions
Summary of Part 3
Part 4: The Distributed Patient – The Recovery Care Assemblage
Introduction to Part 4
11: Recovery and Discharge Planning: Postoperative Orthogeriatric Work
12: Enablement and Infrastructures: Community Resource Team Work
13: Unstable Objects: Recovery Care Transitions
Summary of Part 4
Conclusion: Trajectory Assemblage Synthesis and Implications for Service Improvement and Research
14: Beyond Pathways: Making Coordination Work
Biography
Davina Allen is a professor of Health Service Organisation and Delivery at Cardiff University. A nurse and a sociologist, her work spans foundational ethnographic studies, applied research, and theory development. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Learned Society of Wales, and the Health Foundation, she has a longstanding commitment to the value of sociological inquiry to illuminate and address the practical challenges of contemporary healthcare systems.
