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....the work itself. Here, we take a somewhat different approach. Our concern is with information seeking as an aspect of the competent practice of hospital staff. We do not see information as distinct from other features of the environment in which medical work is conducted nor information work [26] as separable from other working activities. Rather, we want to investigate how information seeking is seamlessly integrated into, and appears as a feature of, the practical everyday work of medical workers. One analytical approach we have taken to this problem is to utilize the concept of ....

....diverse rhythms, the SICU staff, for the most part, was able to successfully reconcile the various, multiple rhythms in their daily work. TRAJECTORIES AND RHYTHMS Studies of work in medical settings inevitably invite comparisons to the classic studies conducted by Anselm Strauss and colleagues [26]. In addition, one of Strauss analytic devices, the concept of trajectory, is sufficiently related to our use of rhythms that the relationship bears elaboration. The major differences between the concepts lie in their scope and orientation. Trajectories are centered on patients and other features ....

Strauss, A., S. Fagerhaugh, B. Suczek, and C. Wiener. 1985. Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago: University of Chicago.

.... on previous experience in healthcare projects [Kra 96; KrWe00; Wetz01] Like many others, we consider the difficulties in implementing information systems into hospitals as being rooted in the specifics of the domain, such as situated cooperation of high complexity [WoKa97] work on human beings [Str 97], hospitals as representatives of special organizational types [Mint79] and relatively low investments and IT knowledge compared to business organizations of similar complexity [Ande97] We assume these factors will similarly affect efforts in improving cross organizational processes. The ....

Strauss, A. L., Fagerhaugh, S. Suczek, B. Wiener, C.: Social Organization of Medical Work, Transaction Publishers, 1997.

....and functioning of the organization require such stability [39] This is another way of saying that ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 4, No. 3, July 1986. 210 Les Gasser coordination of activities requires the commitment to a certain character and organization of work tasks [2, 15, 37]. Work organizations can be seen as a complex structure of organized commitments, which serve to coordinate tasks [11] Thus the degree of certainty of commitments influences how smoothly the entire task structure functions. If task commitments break down, additional work must ensue to reinstate ....

....to iron out the conflict. These two types of work, the work of reorganization and maintenance, are the articulation work of the production lattice. Articulation work serves to establish, maintain, or break the coordinated intersection of task chains, and is found in all organized social settings [3, 12, 37]. It should be clear that the distinction between primary and articulation work in a given setting rests partly upon the needs of the researcher. Work that articulates the intersection of task chains is the primary work of some actors (e.g. managers) Thus we can envision the production lattice ....

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STRAUSS, A., FAGERHAUGH, S., SUZCEK, B., AND WEINER, C. The Social Organization of Medical Work. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1985.

....nature of the work under observation. From her studies of scientific communities, Star [237] for example, has developed the concept of a boundary object to describe objects which support the maintenance of shared understandings of work across groups. From studies of medical work, Strauss et al. [240, 242] evolved the concept of articulation work to describe the work involved in coordinating, scheduling, and allocating distributed individual activities to achieve some collective goal. Strauss Theory of Action A Symbolic Interactionist theory that has been particularly influential in our, work ....

....interpretation and viewpoint that support implicit communication. Robinson argues that the formal level is meaningless without interpretation, and the cultural level is vacuous without being grounded [op.cit] 2.3.3. 6 Articulation Work and Coordination Mechanisms Articulation work [109, 242, 241] is a term commonly used to capture the coordinative tasks of the dichotomies previously mentioned where: individualyetinterdependentactivities must be coordinated, scheduled, aligned, meshed, integrated, etc. in short: articulated. That is, the orderly accomplishment of cooperative work ....

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Anselm Strauss, Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener. Social Organization of Medical Work. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1985.

....out of the unit. On a daily basis, physicians, nurses, and pharmacists successfully coordinate their patient care activities. However, although patient care is the central focus, the various groups have their own work to do; their motivations, concerns, and activities are quite different (Strauss et al. 1985). Consider one case that we observed. A nurse noticed that her patient s fingers were turning blue. She knew that blue fingers were an indication of blood vessel constriction and correctly attributed the condition to the medication. The patient was in obvious discomfort. The nurse did not ....

Strauss, A., Fagerhaugh, S., Suczek, B. and Wiener, C. (1985). Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago: University of Chicago.

....and language change do not exist. They do. Studies have documented technological and social change processes in, for example, air traffic control (see e.g. Harper et al. 1991; Harper and Hughes, 1993; Harper et al. 1994) the London Underground subway system (Heath and Luff, 1996) medical work (Strauss et al. 1985), systems development (see e.g.Bdker and Grnbk, 1996; Carstensen, 1997; Badram, 1998) and the highly influential works on design by Suchman (1987) A thorough illustration of the need for integrating synchronic and diachronic perspectives is given by Hutchins (1995) in his account of navigation ....

STRAUSS, A., SHIZUKO Y. FAGERHAUGH, B. SUCZEK, AND C. WIENER (1985): Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

....To deal with this source of confusion and disorder, individual and yet interdependent activities must be coordinated, scheduled, aligned, meshed, integrated, etc. in short: articulated. 4 That is, the orderly accomplishment of cooperative work requires what has been termed articulation work (Strauss et al. 1985; Gerson and Star, 1986; Strauss, 1988; Strauss, 1994) Proposition 1. Cooperative work is constituted by the interdependence of multiple actors who interact through changing the state of a common field of work, whereas articulation work is constituted by the need to restrain the distributed ....

....under specified. Thus, a protocol will typically be specified incrementally, at least to some extent, while it is executed in the course of the work. Furthermore, a protocol can be invoked implicitly, without any explicit announcements, for instance by certain actors taking certain actions (Strauss, 1985; Schl, 1996) Thus, in order to allow for implicit understanding of certain aspects of articulation work as well as incomplete and not yet complete specification, and also in order not to force actors to have to specify a coordination Schmidt and Simone Coordination mechanisms 33 mechanism more ....

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Strauss, Anselm, Shizuko Y. Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener (1985): Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

....whether it is coher ent with scientific studies of the historical development of patient r ecords. 6 4 97 4 illnesses and a change fr om isolated illnesses to combinations of several illnesses at the same time illness complexes as well as an incr ease in the number of medical specialities (Strauss et al. 1985). In a study at the Norwegian National Hospital it was found that a patient staying at the hospital having been attached certain diagnoses would be tr eated by up to 30 dif ferent specialities and 105 dif ferent people (Rikshospitalet 1995) For patients having several diagnoses at the same time ....

....information is cr ucial in diagnostic work. Accor ding to pathologists at the Radium Hospital in Oslo, it is necessary to know the persons making these observations very well, having collaborated for quite some time to know what they mean by their descriptions. Similar examples is described by Strauss et al. (1985) 3.3 The flow of work The patient r ecord is not an isolated, passive r epresentation of medical work. It is a tool, and a crucial one at that, aiding memory , communication and so forth but it is not a mirror of that work. It does not r epresent the work, but it feeds into it, it str ....

Strauss, A., Fagerhaught, S., Suczek, B. and Wiener, C. Social organization of medical work. Univ. of Chicago Press, 1985.

....clinical work is subject to a large degree of planning and plans play a central role in guiding and recording work at a hospital. Let us consider three examples from the hospital: A central planning tool widely used within medical work is protocols of treatment, or Standard Operating Procedures (Strauss et al. 1985), which prescribe a standard treatment for a standard disease for a standard patient. Such protocols are developed by the clinical team who uses them, and they are supported by general policies and guidelines of use. A central part of such a protocol is often the unravelling program, which ....

Strauss, A., Fagerhaugh, S., Suczek, B. and Wiener, C. (1985): Social Organization of Medical Work. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

....participants. 2.1 Anselm Strauss and negotiated order Although the concept of negotiated order is already in Mead, and was used by some prior researchers, it was Strauss who developed explicitly the notion of negotiated order from a study of the organization of two psychiatric hospitals. Strauss [SFSW85] summarizes the main points derived from this study: i) Social order is negotiated order. In the organizations studied, apparently there could be no organizational relationships without accompanying negotiations. ii) Negotiations were patterned; they were contingent on specific structural ....

Anselm L. Strauss, Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener. The Social Organization of Medical Work. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1985.

....of articulation work, the paper presents a framework that is aimed at exploring and analysing this complexity of articulation. Basic principles from activity theory constitute an appropriate approach in this respect. 1 Introduction The concept of articulation work was introduced by Anselm Strauss (Strauss 1985; Strauss, et al. 1985; Strauss 1988; Strauss 1993) as an analytical framework to understand and explore the interwoven nature of mutually dependent actions of collaborating actors. Taking Articulation Work Seriously 2 5. September 1997 This concept is introduced in the research field of CSCW ....

....work, the paper presents a framework that is aimed at exploring and analysing this complexity of articulation. Basic principles from activity theory constitute an appropriate approach in this respect. 1 Introduction The concept of articulation work was introduced by Anselm Strauss (Strauss 1985; Strauss, et al. 1985; Strauss 1988; Strauss 1993) as an analytical framework to understand and explore the interwoven nature of mutually dependent actions of collaborating actors. Taking Articulation Work Seriously 2 5. September 1997 This concept is introduced in the research field of CSCW by Schmidt and Bannon ....

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Strauss, A., Fagerhaugh, S., Suczek, B. and Wiener, C., Social Organization of Medical Work . Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press., 1985

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