Stephen Buetow
Biographic Data
| ID | 340954 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Buetow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Buetow |
| SIGNATURE | BUETOW S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9771-248X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 136 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A Two-Level, Multidimensional Framework for Understanding and Treating Clinician Fatigue
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis
From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-Centred Health Care
The Thin Man is His Clothing
The Beauty in Perfect Imperfection
The place of theory in assembling the central argument for a thesis or dissertation
While theory plays a variety of roles in forming the central argument of an academic work, it is often assigned a secondary status to that of research methods. The following paper focuses specifically on the benefits for psychology research students in engaging with the capacity of theory to enhance the coherence and originality of their academic works (such as theses or dissertations). Barriers to engagement with theory are identified and contri…
How Can a Family Resemblances Approach Help to Typify Qualitative Research? Exploring the Complexity of Simplicity
The term qualitative research still gives meaning to a diverse array of approaches. Attributes typical of these approaches are easily oversimplified. Recognition that qualitative research requires no essential set of predefining attributes can minimize this problem. This article suggests how to typify qualitative research outputs on the basis of overlapping similarities in the uses of this research. It discusses these similarities within and acro…
Getting the balance right
Context The right to health requires States to achieve the highest standard of health attainable for all. A culturally sensitive approach is needed to respect States’ interpretation and implementation of the universal right to health, and document their progress. Objective This viewpoint suggests how to harmonize the (i) human right to health and (ii) the particularism of State values and interests. Strategy I describe the ‘thickness’ with which …
Making the invisible visible
Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
Thematic analysis is characteristic of most qualitative research. Themes are groups of codes that recur through being similar or connected to each other in a patterned way. Thematic analysis ignores codes that do not recur yet may nonetheless be important. This paper proposes the concept of ‘saliency analysis’ as an enhancement of thematic analysis. Saliency analysis assesses the degree to which each code recurs, is highly important or both. Code…
Approaches to reducing the most important patient errors in primary health-care
We have previously reported a preliminary taxonomy of patient error. However, approaches to managing patients' contribution to error have received little attention in the literature. This paper aims to assess how patients and primary care professionals perceive the relative importance of different patient errors as a threat to patient safety. It also attempts to suggest what these groups believe may be done to reduce the errors, and how. It addre…
Why Don't Some Women Return for Cervical Smears? A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation
To enhance understanding of how having a cervical smear can lead some women not to keep up-to-date with this test, a hermeneutic (interpretative) phenomenological study was undertaken. Participants were six purposively selected New Zealand women -- predominantly Māori -- at least 6 months overdue for a follow-up cervical screen in the previous 6 years. Each woman gave an in-depth interview. Transcribed and analyzed via a general inductive approac…
Non-Attendance for Health Care
Some patients choose not to attend for health care despite health concerns or an opportunity for improved health. Social norms that privilege professional expertise, and good health, deem this choice irrational. However, this paper explores how a particular version of rational choice theory suggests 'positive choices' for such non-attendance. These are cognitive and subjectively rational decisions, which are made freely with potentially positive …
Distributed Decisions
Confronted with uncertainty, who within social networks makes decisions and how? This article suggests a framework for answering these questions. It suggests that decision-making is distributed over time within and among network members. These 'distributed decisions' originate in, and develop from, initial decisions, termed 'proto-decisions'. The process of development of distributed decisions is not merely a social activity. It involves the deve…
Attendance for general practitioner asthma care by children with moderate to severe asthma in Auckland, New Zealand
Defining quality of care
Appropriateness in health care
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews
In general practice care and research, the quality and processing of information can be enhanced by its direct entry into a microcomputer. This article discusses the development and pilot testing of a computerized, interview-assisted instrument that patients and general practitioners can use to report perceptions and experiences of Australian general practice. In general, the instrument was found by the interviewers and respondents to be efficien…
What do general practitioners and their patients want from general practice and are they receiving it? A framework
International Migration
This article provides a broad overview of literature on some of the consequences of international migration for urban and, in particular, metropolitan areas in Australia and New Zealand. The focus therefore is diverse; highlighting similarities in the experiences of each country...;and emphasizing long-term and permanent movements favoured by successive governments on both sides of the Tasman Sea.... The four sets of impacts discussed in this art…
Defining quality of care
Making the invisible visible
What do general practitioners and their patients want from general practice and are they receiving it? A framework
Appropriateness in health care
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis
Distributed Decisions
Confronted with uncertainty, who within social networks makes decisions and how? This article suggests a framework for answering these questions. It suggests that decision-making is distributed over time within and among network members. These 'distributed decisions' originate in, and develop from, initial decisions, termed 'proto-decisions'. The process of development of distributed decisions is not merely a social activity. It involves the deve…
Attendance for general practitioner asthma care by children with moderate to severe asthma in Auckland, New Zealand
International Migration
This article provides a broad overview of literature on some of the consequences of international migration for urban and, in particular, metropolitan areas in Australia and New Zealand. The focus therefore is diverse; highlighting similarities in the experiences of each country...;and emphasizing long-term and permanent movements favoured by successive governments on both sides of the Tasman Sea.... The four sets of impacts discussed in this art…
What do general practitioners and their patients want from general practice and are they receiving it? A framework
Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews
In general practice care and research, the quality and processing of information can be enhanced by its direct entry into a microcomputer. This article discusses the development and pilot testing of a computerized, interview-assisted instrument that patients and general practitioners can use to report perceptions and experiences of Australian general practice. In general, the instrument was found by the interviewers and respondents to be efficien…
Appropriateness in health care
Defining quality of care
Attendance for general practitioner asthma care by children with moderate to severe asthma in Auckland, New Zealand
Distributed Decisions
Confronted with uncertainty, who within social networks makes decisions and how? This article suggests a framework for answering these questions. It suggests that decision-making is distributed over time within and among network members. These 'distributed decisions' originate in, and develop from, initial decisions, termed 'proto-decisions'. The process of development of distributed decisions is not merely a social activity. It involves the deve…
Why Don't Some Women Return for Cervical Smears? A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Investigation
To enhance understanding of how having a cervical smear can lead some women not to keep up-to-date with this test, a hermeneutic (interpretative) phenomenological study was undertaken. Participants were six purposively selected New Zealand women -- predominantly Māori -- at least 6 months overdue for a follow-up cervical screen in the previous 6 years. Each woman gave an in-depth interview. Transcribed and analyzed via a general inductive approac…
Non-Attendance for Health Care
Some patients choose not to attend for health care despite health concerns or an opportunity for improved health. Social norms that privilege professional expertise, and good health, deem this choice irrational. However, this paper explores how a particular version of rational choice theory suggests 'positive choices' for such non-attendance. These are cognitive and subjectively rational decisions, which are made freely with potentially positive …
Thematic Analysis and Its Reconceptualization as ‘Saliency Analysis’
Thematic analysis is characteristic of most qualitative research. Themes are groups of codes that recur through being similar or connected to each other in a patterned way. Thematic analysis ignores codes that do not recur yet may nonetheless be important. This paper proposes the concept of ‘saliency analysis’ as an enhancement of thematic analysis. Saliency analysis assesses the degree to which each code recurs, is highly important or both. Code…
Approaches to reducing the most important patient errors in primary health-care
We have previously reported a preliminary taxonomy of patient error. However, approaches to managing patients' contribution to error have received little attention in the literature. This paper aims to assess how patients and primary care professionals perceive the relative importance of different patient errors as a threat to patient safety. It also attempts to suggest what these groups believe may be done to reduce the errors, and how. It addre…
Making the invisible visible
Getting the balance right
Context The right to health requires States to achieve the highest standard of health attainable for all. A culturally sensitive approach is needed to respect States’ interpretation and implementation of the universal right to health, and document their progress. Objective This viewpoint suggests how to harmonize the (i) human right to health and (ii) the particularism of State values and interests. Strategy I describe the ‘thickness’ with which …
The place of theory in assembling the central argument for a thesis or dissertation
While theory plays a variety of roles in forming the central argument of an academic work, it is often assigned a secondary status to that of research methods. The following paper focuses specifically on the benefits for psychology research students in engaging with the capacity of theory to enhance the coherence and originality of their academic works (such as theses or dissertations). Barriers to engagement with theory are identified and contri…
How Can a Family Resemblances Approach Help to Typify Qualitative Research? Exploring the Complexity of Simplicity
The term qualitative research still gives meaning to a diverse array of approaches. Attributes typical of these approaches are easily oversimplified. Recognition that qualitative research requires no essential set of predefining attributes can minimize this problem. This article suggests how to typify qualitative research outputs on the basis of overlapping similarities in the uses of this research. It discusses these similarities within and acro…
The Beauty in Perfect Imperfection
The Thin Man is His Clothing
From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-Centred Health Care
Emotionally Sensitive Thematic Analysis
A Two-Level, Multidimensional Framework for Understanding and Treating Clinician Fatigue
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Health care (5 works) · Nursing (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)