The Language of Patient Feedback
eBook - ePub

The Language of Patient Feedback

A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication

  1. 246 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Language of Patient Feedback

A Corpus Linguistic Study of Online Health Communication

About this book

The Language of Patient Feedback provides a unique insight into a diverse range of issues related to healthcare. 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.

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Yes, you can access The Language of Patient Feedback by Paul Baker,Gavin Brookes,Craig Evans in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Communication Studies. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half Title
  4. Series Information
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Chapter 1 Introduction: The NHS, patient feedback and corpus linguistics
  12. Chapter 2 What seems to be the trouble?: Identifying key areas of patient concern
  13. Chapter 3 On a scale of one to five …: Comparing the rating scale with written feedback
  14. Chapter 4 Rude receptionists, dismissive doctors and lovely nurses: Comparing NHS providers and staff
  15. Chapter 5 I have been a patient with this surgery all my life: Age and evaluation
  16. Chapter 6 Real men don’t feel pain: Language and gendered expectations
  17. Chapter 7 Your feedback is important to us: Staff replies to patient feedback
  18. Chapter 8 Conclusion: The health of the NHS
  19. References
  20. Index