The language of patient feedback a corpus linguistic study of online health communication / Paul Baker, Gavin Brookes and Craig Evans.
| Author/creator | Baker, Paul, 1972- |
| Other author | Brookes, Gavin (Linguist) |
| Other author | Evans, Craig (Linguist) |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. |
| Description | x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | The Routledge applied corpus linguistics series |
| Contents | Introduction. The NHs, patient feedback and corpus linguistics -- What seems to be the trouble? identifying key areas of patient concern -- On a scale of 1 to 5 : comparing the rating scale with written feedback -- Rude receptionists, dismissive doctors and lovely nurses : comparing NHS providers and staff -- I have been a patient with this surgery all my life : age and evaluation -- Real men don't feel pain : language and gendered expectations -- Your feedback is important to us : staff replies to patient feedback -- Conclusion. The health of the NHS. |
| Abstract | "The Language of Patient Feedback examines the language that patients use to represent and evaluate their experiences of the National Health Service in England, as well as the language that providers use to respond to their comments, to provide a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to health care. Through the comprehensive and detailed interrogation of 29 million words of online patient feedback on the NHS in England, as well as 11 million words of responses to the feedback from NHS providers, this book: - uses a combination of computer-assisted and human analysis (Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis) to examine the extent to which characteristics like age and gender result in different types of evaluation; - investigates why nurses, doctors, dentists and receptionists are associated with very distinct types of feedback; - demonstrates the ways that NHS staff respond to comments and what this reveals about underlying institutional ideologies and practices; - concludes with suggestions for key recommendations that the NHS could act upon to improve the overall level of care it provides, as well as reflecting on what patient evaluation can actually tell us. The Language of Patient Feedback is key reading for anyone undertaking research within corpus linguistics, discourse analysis and health communication"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-240) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018056457 |
| ISBN | 9781138702776 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (e-book) |
| ISBN | ebook |
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