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Title: Leadership and High-Performance Teams
Human Factors in Healthcare is calling for papers for an upcoming special issue.
The aim of this special issue is to provide researchers and practitioners with an opportunity to share their applications of HFE in digital health. This issue will showcase both research and applied papers that describe an application of HFE to the design, implementation or evaluation of digital health solutions. Submissions from both researchers and practitioners are encouraged. Articles to be included in the special issue can focus on any digital health solution, including (but not limited to) patient-facing tools, clinician-facing tools, and collaboration solutions, or on new methods, design techniques or implementation strategies for digital health.
Manuscript submission deadline: 20 March 2023.
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Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research by
This handbook provides an up-to-date reference point for ethnography in healthcare research. This edited volume is organized around major methodological themes, such as ethics, interviews, narrative analysis and mixed methods. Through the use of case studies, it illustrates how methodological considerations for ethnographic healthcare research are distinct from those in other fields.
Community-Led Research: Walking New Pathways Together by
The concept of community-led research has taken off in recent years in a variety of fields, from archaeology and anthropology to social work and everything in between. Drawing on case studies from Australia, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, this book considers what it means to participate in community-led research, for both communities and researchers. How can researchers and communities work together well, and how can research be reimagined using the knowledge of First Nations peoples and other communities to ensure it remains relevant, sustainable, socially just and inclusive?
Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods Approaches, 5e by
Text compares qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design. For all three approaches, the authors include a preliminary consideration of philosophical assumptions, key elements of the research process, a review of the literature, an assessment of the use of theory in research applications, and reflections about the importance of writing and ethics in scholarly inquiry.
Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety, 2e by
This book draws on both areas to provide a compendium of human factors and ergonomics issues relevant to health care and patient safety. The second edition takes a more practical approach with coverage of methods, interventions, and applications and a greater range of domains such as medication safety, surgery, anesthesia, and infection prevention.
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