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Article: Research conducted at University of Saskatchewan has provided new information about sociology of health and illness.(Report)
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- Politics & Government Week
- Article date:
- September 3, 2009
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According to a study from Saskatoon, Canada, "This study is set against the backdrop of the evolving order of a health care system in a province implementing a set of concurrent reforms. The study investigates how 'knowledge work' of multi-disciplinary health care teams is actually done and how it is co-ordinated across sites."
"Knowledge work involves three processes: the creation of new knowledge during the transfer of knowledge, in the context of the application of knowledge to their collective clinical decision-making. Institutional ethnography is used to explore the social and institutional forces that shape the knowledge work of health care providers in ...