TY - GEN
T1 - Mitigating barriers to patient-centred knowledge sharing a case-study of knowledge sharing problems in the collaboration of traditional and western practitioners in chinese hospitals
AU - Zhou, Lihong
AU - Nunes, Miguel Baptista
AU - Liu, Wenwen
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper reports a research study that aims to mitigate and overcome barriers to the sharing of patient-centred knowledge in the interprofessional collaboration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine (WM) professionals in Chinese hospitals. This research adopted a Grounded Theory (GT) approach as the overarching methodology to guide the analysis of the data collected in a single case study design. A public hospital in central China was selected as the case-study site, at which 49 informants were interviewed by using semi-structured and evolving interview scripts. Through the analysis of the interview data using GT analysis methodology, 11 KS barriers emerged. With a further conceptualisation of the KS barriers identified, it became clear that KS is mainly hindered by philosophical and professional tensions between TCM and WM practitioners. Therefore, in order to improve KS and mitigate the two types of interprofessional tensions, three strategies are proposed based on the findings of this study, namely: (1) formalising KS processes and exploring effective communication channels; (2) establishing specific interprofessional training schemes and programmes; (3) eliminating imbalances of professional power and statues and creating conducive KS environment.
AB - This paper reports a research study that aims to mitigate and overcome barriers to the sharing of patient-centred knowledge in the interprofessional collaboration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Western Medicine (WM) professionals in Chinese hospitals. This research adopted a Grounded Theory (GT) approach as the overarching methodology to guide the analysis of the data collected in a single case study design. A public hospital in central China was selected as the case-study site, at which 49 informants were interviewed by using semi-structured and evolving interview scripts. Through the analysis of the interview data using GT analysis methodology, 11 KS barriers emerged. With a further conceptualisation of the KS barriers identified, it became clear that KS is mainly hindered by philosophical and professional tensions between TCM and WM practitioners. Therefore, in order to improve KS and mitigate the two types of interprofessional tensions, three strategies are proposed based on the findings of this study, namely: (1) formalising KS processes and exploring effective communication channels; (2) establishing specific interprofessional training schemes and programmes; (3) eliminating imbalances of professional power and statues and creating conducive KS environment.
KW - Chinese hospitals
KW - Knowledge sharing
KW - Patient-centred healthcare
KW - Traditional chinese medicine
KW - Western medicine
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84887718113&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.5220/0004546002980307
DO - 10.5220/0004546002980307
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84887718113
SN - 9789898565754
T3 - IC3K 2013; KDIR 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and KMIS 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Proc.
SP - 298
EP - 307
BT - IC3K 2013; KDIR 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval and KMIS 2013 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, Proc.
PB - SciTePress
T2 - 5th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval, KDIR 2013 and the 5th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing, KMIS 2013
Y2 - 19 September 2013 through 22 September 2013
ER -