Hospital Discharge and the Temporal Regulation of Bodies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4355997
AutoresJ Heaton (0000-0002-0707-194X, autor de correspondencia)
Año2001
Volumen10
Número1
Páginas93-111
Fecha de publicación2001-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTime & Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0961463x01010001006
OpenAlexW2113628475
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

This article explores the temporal interface between hospital and home-based regimes of care, focusing on patients' discharge home from specialist care units. Following an outline of the temporal imperatives that distinguish hospital discharge policy in the UK, secondary analysis of qualitative data is used to examine the temporal organization of discharge procedures and patients' and informal carers' experiences of the transfer of care from hospital to home. Tensions in the institutional time frames of hospital and community-based services and the everyday time frames of patients and carers are highlighted, together with the implications for policy and practice in this area

Health care · Hospital care · Hospital discharge · Political science · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Data Analysis and Archiving · Medicine · Nursing · Primary Care and Health Outcomes · Psychology