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- Title
Varieties of improvement expertise: Knowledge and contestation in health‐care improvement.
- Authors
Cribb, Alan; Entwistle, Vikki; Mitchell, Polly
- Abstract
The 'improvement' of health care is now established and growing as a field of research and practice. This article, based on qualitative data from interviews with 21 senior leaders in this field, analyses the growth of improvement expertise as not simply an expansion but also a multiplication of 'ways of knowing'. It illustrates how health‐care improvement is an area where contests about relevant kinds of knowledge, approaches and purposes proliferate and intersect. One dimension of this story relates to the increasing relevance of sociological expertise—both as a disciplinary contributor to this arena of research and practice and as a spur to reflexive critique. The analysis highlights the threat of persistent hierarchies within improvement expertise reproducing and amplifying restricted conceptions of both improvement and 'better' health care.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care societies; MEDICAL quality control; HEALTH policy; ANALYTIC hierarchy process; RESEARCH methodology; SOCIAL theory; THEORY of knowledge; INTERVIEWING; HEALTH literacy; MEDICAL care research; QUALITATIVE research; QUALITY assurance; RESEARCH funding
- Publication
Sociology of Health & Illness, 2023, Vol 45, Issue 4, p734
- ISSN
0141-9889
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-9566.13616