Teamwork and Team Talk - Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care - Srikant Sarangi

Teamwork and Team Talk - Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care - Srikant Sarangi

Team talk and problem solving in thoracic medicine

Teamwork and Team Talk - Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care - Srikant Sarangi

Per Maseide
University of Nordland Previously known as Bodø University College
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The topic of this article is collaborative problem solving conducted as talk and social interaction in a particular team in the thoracic ward of a Norwegian hospital. The problems to be solved were complex and required a team consisting of participants from diverse medical specialties that met regularly to discuss examination procedures, formulate diagnoses, and decide forms of treatment. Data for the article come from field notes and audio recordings made while the author observed this meeting regularly over more than one year. The aim of the paper is to investigate how team discourse was regulated in ways that served the reproduction of institutional medical standards for problem solving, and also how the meeting had to deal with deviations from institutional standards and attempted to reproduce a certain form of normative orderliness and interaction order.

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Maseide, Per. Team talk and problem solving in thoracic medicine. Teamwork and Team Talk - Decision-making across the Boundaries in Health and Social Care. Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. Jun 2025. ISBN 9781845539054. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=25184. Date accessed: 11 Dec 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.25184. Jun 2025

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