Assing Hvidt, Elisabeth

Grønning, Anette

Klausen, Maja

Laursen, Ditte

Simonsen, Line Maria

English

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#ResearchhighlightsDoctor-patient email consultations: What do we know and what do weneed to know?AarhusNovember 25, 2020Department for the Study of CultureShort presentationWe are a Danish research group withinHuman Health: Elisabeth Assing Hvidt Ditte Laursen Maja Klausen Line Maria Simonsen Anette GrønningDEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE2INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERLarge backing group- including our advisory board Karen Andersen-Ranberg Jens Søndergaard Karen Munk Kim Normann Andersen Heidi Bøgelund Frederiksen Theo van Leeuwen Srikant Sarangi Karianne Skovholt Anne KankaanrantaINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER3Research project 2018-2021How does email consultation (EC) and the way it is perceived influence the role of the patient, the doctor and their interrelation? The content and form of ECs The perceptions of ECs by patients and GPs The significance of the interactions > content and form of consultations Relational aspects of email consultations with GPs The project is funded by The VELUX Foundations, Helsefonden and the Strategic Resources, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) > Digital Health4The next 35 min Short presentation of the research group (Anette Grønning) 1) Lower contact threshold, (2) accessing a new interaction space and (3) access to access? (Anette Grønning) What are the relational potentials of e-mail-mediated doctor-patient communication? (Elisabeth Assing Hvidt) Does e-mail-consultation afford specific perceived advantages for the 65+ male patient? (Maja Klausen) The content and form of digital consultations (Ditte Laursen) How are digital consultations embedded in the everyday working lives of health practitioners? And how are they used, produced and interpreted in interprofessional interactions? (Line Maria Simonsen)DEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE5INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER31. oktober 2016Perceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access Relational potentials?Relationally shapedand situatedRelationallyresourceless/ful65+ male patients: Potentials and barriers?A cognitiveethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsContent and formAnalytical and methodological frameworkGenreINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERPerceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access How do patients and general practitioners in Denmark perceive the communicative advantages and disadvantages of access via email consultations? (1) lower contact threshold(2)accessing a new interaction space(3)access to access• The study adds knowledge of how the affordances of the medium of emailconsultation may impact access in doctor-patient communicationSemi-structured interviews: ‘talk around texts’ (Lillis, 2009)Grønning, A., Assing Hvidt, E., Brøgger, M. N. & Fage-Butler, A. (2020). Patients’ and GPs’ perspectives on advantages and disadvantages of access via e-consultations: A qualitative study. BMJ Open.31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERPerceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital accessFuture perspectives• More studies of content AND perception• Focus on cohesive health care and health (in)equality• Research knowledge from one digital consultation form (email) to another digital consultation form (video)31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER31. oktober 2016Perceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access Relational potentials?Relationally shapedand situatedRelationallyresourceless/ful65+ male patients: Potentials and barriers?A cognitiveethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsContent and formAnalytical and methodological frameworkGenreINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERThe relational potentials of digital consultations• What are the relational potentials of email-mediated doctor-patient communication?• Email consultation is not just an information-delivery tool: it is shaped by and shapes practices, interpersonal interactions- and communication. • Email consultation holds the potential for maintaining, strengthening and/or dissolving the GP-patient relationship – depending on the relational resources that the GP and patient put into the medium.31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERThe relational potentials of digital consultations• What entails “good” digital provider-patient relationships?• In what ways might “digital doctoring” become as “rich” as “analog doctoring”? • How might digital consultations promote “commonality”, and “we”-experiences between patient and provider?31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER31. oktober 2016Perceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access Relational potentials?Relationally shapedand situatedRelationallyresourceless/ful65+ male patients: Potentials and barriers?A cognitiveethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsContent and formAnalytical and methodological frameworkGenreINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER65+ male patientsEssential findings- Methods: Semi-structured qualitative interviews incl. "media go-alongs" and narrative vignettes- Potential to support helpseeking that would have not been initiated u synchronousconsultation channels (phone or face to face)- Perceived as less intrusive than synchrounous consultation- Experienced as easily accomodated into the everyday- Attuning to the body - Chronical illness: An opportunity to "touch base" with the GP31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER65+ male patientsFuture perspectives(In)equality in health: Which findings will a study of male patients with low digital literacy provide?Health data/patient data: In which ways does the datafication of the patient affect and/or transformpatienthood and healthcare?31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER31. oktober 2016Perceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access Relational potentials?Relationally shapedand situatedRelationallyresourceless/ful65+ male patients: Potentials and barriers?A cognitiveethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsContent and formAnalytical and methodological frameworkGenreINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERA cognitive ethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsThe project found that using, producing and interpreting digital consultations involvesthe practitioners' abilities to navigate and manage hybridity (Linell & Thunqvist, 2003), in:- Roles- The balance of technobureaucratic procedures and emergent medical complexity- Technical particularity and ecological multiplicity- Integrating digital work and medical workWith an eye for hybridity, the medical-interactional complexity that goes into seeminglymundane and taken-for-granted technological practices are illuminated-> Allows for reflection, professional autonomy and, hence, improvementpotentialsMethods: Cognitive Ethnography with video-observation31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERFuture perspectives:-> On a scientific level: Challenge the technological taken-for-grantedness-> On a practical level: Understanding technological implications-> On a political level: Engaging in the implementation processes31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERA cognitive ethnography of interprofessionalinteractions with digital consultationsINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER31. oktober 2016Perceptions of communicative advantages and disadvantages of digital access Relational potentials?Relationally shapedand situatedRelationallyresourceless/ful65+ male patients: Potentials and barriers?A cognitiveethnography of interprofessional interactions with digital consultationsContent and formAnalytical and methodological frameworkGenreINSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERThe content and form of ECs31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABEREssential findingsStudy 1 An analytical and methodological framework to address collection strategies and their implications in a systematic way in any research project, which includes email as data, as support or guide for future research projectsStudy 2 Genre is a productive concept for comprehending the communicative affordances of e-consultations and there are generic characteristics to patient-initiated e-consultations to the GP Text format Image formatDigital format possible to handle as big datamay come in proprietary formatsmay be structured/unstructuredmigration is inevitable for preservationmachine readable partially machine readable Analogue format (paper)long-term preservabilitypartial capture of original visual displaycapture of original visual displayMove 1 SubjectMove 2 Opening Hi Susanne.Move 3 UpdateMove 4 Problem presentationI have a hemorrhoid that is starting to bother me after every bowel movement that I have regularly every morning. It grows with the stool, but wears off during the day.Move 5 Request Do you have any suggestions for what a possible solution might be?Move 6 Argumentation Years ago, I had an elastic band put on a hemorrhoid at a clinic in Aarhus. It was not the most comfortable solution, but if it is the solution, I'm ready for it too.Move 7 Closing Thanks in advance. Regards, CarstenLaursen, Ditte; Simonsen, Line; Grønning, Anette (2020, submitted) Laursen, Ditte; Brøgger, Matilde Nisbeth; Fage-Butler, Antoinette Mary; Møller, Jane Ege; Grønning, Anette (2020, in prep.)INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERThe content and form of ECs31. oktober 2016INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABERFuture perspectivesMethodological challenges in describing and working with the context of email consultations, ie. a slice of the ecosystem (Hutchins, 2014) in which the email consultation exchanges are embedded.Genre analysis not only useful as a tool for describing e-consultations, to understand the complex reality of such doctor-patient communication, but also for pedagogical purposes, for the medical curriculum, in line with teaching of how to conduct a medical interview or write patients’ medical records. A micro-analysis to complement the macro-analysis, i.e. a lexico-grammatical analysis investigating the salient lexico-grammatical choices and strategies which illustrate how the move structure steps are operationalized linguistically. PublicationsGrønning, A., Assing Hvidt, E., Brøgger, M. N. & Fage-Butler, A. (2020). Patients’ and GPs’ perspectives on advantages and disadvantages of access via e-consultations: A qualitative study. BMJ Open.Assing Hvidt, E., Søndergaard, J., Klausen, M. & Grønning, A. (accepted for publication). Not just an information-delivery tool. Experiences with the relational potential of email consultations among general practitioners. Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care.Laursen, D., Simonsen, L. M. & Grønning, A. (under review). Methodological challenges in researching email consultations as a form of communication in patient-provider interactions. Qualitative Research.Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation. (2021). Special issue on Health, media and participation, edited by Maja Klausen, Anette Grønning & Carsten Stage.Klausen, M. & Grønning, A. (2021). My throat “tickles”. Bodies in affective discourse in patient–doctor email consultations. In Klausen, Grønning & Stage (eds.). Special issue on Health, media and participation. Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation.21PublicationsAnthology in Danish, edited by Elisabeth Assing Hvidt, Anette Grønning & Jens Søndergaard. (2021). Relationel opmærksomhed i sundhedsvæsenet – hvorfor og hvordan? [Relational attention in health care  - why and how?]Publisher: Samfundslitteratur. Forthcoming:Grønning, A. (2021). Struggling with and mastering email consultations. Nordicom special issue on Struggling. Klausen, M. (2021). The digital old man. The Old Man, Aarhus University PressLaursen, D. et al. Generic characteristics of the patient’s email to the GPAssing Hvidt, E. et al. Multi-level structures and human agency in relation to email consultations: Strong structuration theory analysis of the Danish general practice setting.Simonsen, L. M. The shape of digital consultations in healthcare: Absent and hybrid presence in social interactions. Nordicom special issue on Struggling.Grønning, A. & Mai, A. E-mail-konsultation i almen praksis. Refleksiv skrivning og samskabte narrativer. [Emailconsultation in general practice. Reflexive writing and co-created narratives]. (2021). Anthology in Danish and English > Narrative Medicine. Gads Forlag.22Other stuff• Other disseminationFeature article, Danish newspaper Berlingske, August 4, 2020 > Vi savner nuancer når det handler om at gå til lægen digitalt [We miss nuances when it comes to digital consultations]Article Månedsskrift for almen praksis [Monthly magazine for general practice], August 2018 > presentation of our research project including invitation to participate• Conference > you are mostly welcome!February 23-24, 2021 in Odense (and online): The panel “Digital consultation” at the conferenceDigitalizing social practices: Changes and consequences, SDU. Anthony Smith, Srikant Sarangi, Helena Sandberg et al. https://www.conferencemanager.dk/resemina/home• Continuing professional development and educationGPs: “Lægedage” [Doctor days], 2018 and 2019 (cancelled in 2020 due to COVID-19): Email consultations.Medical students: Narrative medicine > Lecture including email consultations as reflective writing23Funding + Digital Health• The project is funded by The VELUX Foundations, Helsefonden and the Strategic Resources, University of Southern Denmark (SDU)• Digital Health > Human Health: University of Southern Denmark’s strategic initiative within health communication. The initiative brings together academic research environments across the Humanities, Health Sciences and Social Sciences• In 2019, we received funding from SDU for the next step within Digital consultations: Video consultations between patients and GPs24INSTITUT FOR KULTURVIDENSKABER25Contact info:Elisabeth Assing Hvidt: ehvidt@health.sdu.dkMaja Klausen: makl@sdu.dkDitte Laursen: dila@kb.dkLine Maria Simonsen: limas@sdu.dkAnette Grønning: ahg@sdu.dkThanks for listening!Contact infoAnette Grønning, Associate Professorahg@sdu.dkTwitter: @anettehauervigElisabeth Assing Hvidt, Associate ProfessorEhvidt@health.sduTwitter: @EHvidtDEPARTMENT FOR THE STUDY OF CULTURE26Maja Klausen, Assistant Professormakl@sdu.dkTwitter: @majaklausen1Line Maria Simonsen, PhD-scholarlimas@sdu.dkTwitter: @Linemariasimon1Ditte Laursendila@kb.dkTwitter: @DitteDla

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