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Going home from hospital — an appreciative inquiry study
Author(s)	Jan Reed, Pauline Pearson, Barbara Douglas
Journal title	Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 10, no 1, January 2002
Pages	pp 36-45
Keywords	Discharge [hospitals] ; Planning [admin] ; Coordination ; Projects ; Attitude ; Social surveys.
Annotation	In appreciative inquiry (AI), research is directed towards appreciating what it is about the social world that is positive. This paper reports on a project involving a number of agencies and groups, including older people, working together to examine and develop practice in an area of shared concern - going home from hospital. The project was stimulated by a "whole system event" and based on AI methodology. The study was planned around three workshops to streamline data collection and analysis. This paper gives an overview of the study, and explores some of the issues involved when working with service users and providers as co-researchers. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-020207206 A
Classmark	LD:QKJ: QA6: QAJ: 3E: DP: 3F
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