Coordinating First Aid Provision
A Qualitative Study Exploring the Multiplicity of Categories at the Great North Run
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3209290 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hannah Stoddart (0009-0007-4734-1565, Department of Health Sciences University of York York UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | e70086-e70086 |
| Publication date | 2025-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.70086 |
| PMID | 41032748 |
| OpenAlex | W4414697021 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
First aid is an under-investigated category of the emergency care system, with much research focusing on ambulance crews and emergency service departments. Historically, first aid research has been dominated by psychological responses of individuals (e.g., actions of the bystander or the individual's willingness to act in a situation). This study takes a different approach to studying first aid by examining the nature in which provision is situated. Using ethnographic data from a study based at the Great North Run (GNR), the analysis follows one patient's journey through treatment to show it is the dynamic interplay of multiple schemes that structure first aid response at various stages of treatment. These schemes assign the patient to particular spaces and times, demonstrating a spatial-temporal aspect of these infrastructures. Additionally, these tools inform first aiders' decision-making, drawing them into 'risk work' type of performances. In bringing together this ethnographic material and sociological debates on standardisation tools, I reveal that the interplay and enactment of these schemes represent an extension of the systems of value that underpin the prioritisation of patients beyond the clinic and out into the community
Ethnography · First aid · Qualitative analysis · Qualitative research · Service (business) · Value (mathematics) · Disaster Management and Resilience · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Policing Practices and Perceptions
Telling a story or reporting the facts? Interpretation and description in the qualitative analysis of applied health research data
Layering risk work amidst an emerging crisis
On ‘risk work’
Interpreting and managing risk in a machine bureaucracy
‘I have really learned how to smile with my eyes’. Risk work and embodied care practices among nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic in Denmark
Hospital transfers from care homes
Sorting Things Out
Invisible Mediators of Action
Informal logics of risk
Narratives and gatekeeping
The responsive bystander
Layers of Silence, Arenas of Voice
Problems and promises of the protocol
Professional call centres, professional workers and the paradox of the algorithm
Adaptive regulation or governmentality
Telephone triage, expert systems and clinical expertise
The construction of medical disposals Medical sociology and medical problem solving in clinical practice
The ritualisation of the surgical safety checklist and its decoupling from patient safety goals
The remarkable invisibility of NHS 111 online
Triage as an infrastructure of care
Beyond guidelines
Why must I wait?' The performance of legitimacy in a hospital emergency department
Decision-making and accountability
Risk, governance and the experience of care
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |