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Standardized Nursing Work: Works in Practice but not in Theory?
Rune Pedersen, Gunnar Ellingsen, Eric Monteiro
91 - 96
10.3233/978-1-60750-569-3-91
Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Volume 157: Information Technology in Health Care: Socio-Technical Approaches 2010
Abstract

Socio-technical approaches have established that ICT-supported standardization of healthcare work is difficult, if not impossible. We argue that standardization is neither straightforward nor uncontroversial, but discuss an interpretative case study where standardization of nursing work – to an interesting degree – has been achieved. Our case suggests that co-constructing of the standards is essential to standardization in practice. This is partly imposed from the top, and partly accomplished through the active involvement and ingenuity of users.

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