Nobody Dies Alone in the Electronic Patient Record—A Qualitative Analysis of the Textual Practices of Documenting Dying and Death
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13628130 |
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| Authors | Laila Hov (0000-0002-4724-4972, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway, corresponding author), Bodil Tveit (0000-0002-5146-2438, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway), Oddgeir Synnes (0000-0002-1976-4268, VID Specialized University, Oslo, Norway) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 246-261 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00302228211019197 |
| PMID | 34038173 |
| OpenAlex | W3165874391 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In this study, we analyse the electronic patient record (EPR) as a genre and investigate how a death is documented as part of the EPR, that is, what kind of textual practices can be found, and how they can be understood based on extracts from 42 EPRs from medical wards in Norwegian hospitals. Following from our analysis, we see four distinct patterns in the documentation of patient death: a) registering the bare minimum of information, b) registering a body stopped working, c) documenting dying quietly and placing it in peaceful surroundings, and d) highlighting the accompanied death. The textual practices of documenting the transition to death in the EPR make death appear manageable and sanitised, depicting death as either uneventful or good. While the EPR genre is steeped in biomedical language, other discourses relating to death can be seen as ways to accommodate the ideal of a dignified death
Computer security · Documentation · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Linguistics · Medical emergency · nobody · Norwegian · Time of death · Computer Science · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Medicine · Philosophy
The Language of Evaluation
Using Documents in Social Research
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Modes of dying in the electronic patient record
Telling Cases
The Medical Case Narrative
Introduction
Let Me Die in Your House”
Passing on death
Death and liminality
Euphemism & Dysphemism
Narrative constructs in modern clinical case reporting
Time, clinic technologies, and the making of reflexive longevity
Death brokering
Practices of reading and writing
| Highly cited | No |
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