Abstract
The contribution takes organizational space to the analytical fore and analyzes the spatial mediation of the translation of patient-centered care. By bridging theories on innovations' translation and the literature on organizational space, the chapter explores how the redesign of healthcare spaces is used to materialize ideas of patient-centredness and what happens when consolidated clinical practices resist and change these spatial translations of an innovation. Specifically the work focuses on a) how patient-centredness translates into the spatial arrangement of the hospital and b) how, in turn, clinical practitioners work with or around the new spatial setup by both taking up the patient-centredness discourse and working around the spatial arrangement.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Controversies in Healthcare Innovation: Service, Technology and Organization in health care |
| Editors | T., La Rocca, A., Aanestad M. Hoholm |
| Pages | 21-52 |
| Number of pages | 32 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- hospitals
- organizational change
- organizational space
- patients