ReHumanizing Hospital Satisfaction Data
Text Analysis, the Lifeworld, and Contesting Stakeholders' Beliefs in Evidence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5948603 |
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| Authors | Julia Wignall, Dwight Barry (0000-0003-0938-6037, Principal Data Scientist at Seattle Children's Hospital in Seattle, Washington, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 2018 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 427-456 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings (CONFERENCE) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1559-890X • E-ISSN: 1559-8918 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1559-8918.2018.01216 |
| OpenAlex | W2913735061 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
Declining clinician engagement, increasing rates of burnout, and stagnant patient and family experience scores have led hospital leadership at Seattle Children's Hospital to submit requests to a data scientist and an anthropologist to identify key themes of survey comments and provide recommendations to improve experience and satisfaction. This study explored ways of understanding satisfaction as well as analytic approaches to textual data, and found that various modes of evidence, while seemingly ideal to leaders, are hard pressed to meet their expectations. Examining satisfaction survey comments via text mining, content analysis, and ethnographic investigation uncovered several specific challenges to stakeholder requests for actionable insights. Despite its hype, text mining struggled to identify actionable themes, accurate sentiment, or group distinctions that are readily identified by both content analysis and end users, while more insightful ethnographic results were sometimes discounted for lack of quantitative results or perceived implementation difficulty. Unfortunately, institutional contexts and preferences for specific types of data can lead to unnecessary requests and wasted efforts. Through including the subjective lifeworld, how an individual's lived experiences impact interactions with others, the authors were able re-humanize satisfaction. Cross-discipline collaboration can enhance the quality, validation, and advocacy of evidence from both qualitative and quantitative data. Co-developing a "Return on Method" (ROM) of satisfaction data can help improve analytic requests and expectations by end users. Ultimately, a lifeworld-informed combination of data science and ethnography can provide contextual and culturally situated insights that are both meaningful and actionable
Ethnography · Lifeworld · Political science · Public relations · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Stakeholder · Computer Science · Healthcare Policy and Management · Healthcare Quality and Management · Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare · Psychology · Social Psychology
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