Patient data work: filtering and sensing patient-reported outcomes
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Patient data work : filtering and sensing patient-reported outcomes. / Torenholt, Rikke; Saltbæk, Lena; Langstrup, Henriette.
I: Sociology of Health and Illness, Bind 42, Nr. 6, 2020, s. 1379-1393.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Patient data work
T2 - filtering and sensing patient-reported outcomes
AU - Torenholt, Rikke
AU - Saltbæk, Lena
AU - Langstrup, Henriette
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - With digital patient-reported outcome (PRO) tools in clinical practice, patients are given new tasks of providing data that aim at supporting and individualising care, simultaneously reducing unnecessary clinical visits. While the innovative potential of mobilising PRO data for care is increasingly explored, little attention is given to the efforts that the provision of PRO data rests on – that of the patients. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among cancer patients receiving PRO-based follow-up care, we argue that with the increased reliance on patient-generated health data, we need to consider patients’ data work. Drawing on emerging literature on healthcare professionals’ data work and the rich work in sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) on patients’ active engagement in shaping and managing care, we conceptualise PRO patient data work as two simultaneous processes: the process of data filtering – patients filter information to fit the envisaged recipient and purpose; and the process of data sensing – patients evaluate their embodied experiences. By doing so, we show that patients’ data work has implications beyond simply providing data that represent their experiences.
AB - With digital patient-reported outcome (PRO) tools in clinical practice, patients are given new tasks of providing data that aim at supporting and individualising care, simultaneously reducing unnecessary clinical visits. While the innovative potential of mobilising PRO data for care is increasingly explored, little attention is given to the efforts that the provision of PRO data rests on – that of the patients. Based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among cancer patients receiving PRO-based follow-up care, we argue that with the increased reliance on patient-generated health data, we need to consider patients’ data work. Drawing on emerging literature on healthcare professionals’ data work and the rich work in sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS) on patients’ active engagement in shaping and managing care, we conceptualise PRO patient data work as two simultaneous processes: the process of data filtering – patients filter information to fit the envisaged recipient and purpose; and the process of data sensing – patients evaluate their embodied experiences. By doing so, we show that patients’ data work has implications beyond simply providing data that represent their experiences.
KW - cancer
KW - cancer follow-up care
KW - data filtering
KW - data sensing
KW - data work
KW - patient work
KW - patient-reported outcomes
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9566.13114
DO - 10.1111/1467-9566.13114
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85086522261
VL - 42
SP - 1379
EP - 1393
JO - Sociology of Health and Illness
JF - Sociology of Health and Illness
SN - 0141-9889
IS - 6
ER -
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