Abstract
Preoperative assessments provide an essential clinical risk assessment aimed at identifying patient risks and requirements prior to surgery. As such they require effective and sensitive information-gathering skills. In addition to physical examination, the preoperative assessment includes a series of routine questions assessing a patient's fitness for surgery. These questions are typically designed to elicit minimal, ‘no problem’ responses, but patients sometimes produce expanded responses that extend beyond the projected information. Our analysis reveals that troubles-telling is often invoked by both nurses and patients as an effective, patient-centred resource for negotiating the medical relevance of patients' concerns in these contexts.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 218-226 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Social Science and Medicine |
Volume | 200 |
Issue number | 0 |
Early online date | 6 Feb 2018 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 31 Mar 2018 |
Keywords
- Conversation analysis
- Troubles-telling
- Nurse-patient interaction
- UK