All Outputs (16)

‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses (2024)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P. (2024). ‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses. Social Science and Medicine, 348, Article 116824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116824

This paper explores news media discourse about care.data: an NHS England programme of work for amalgamating and sharing patient data from primary care for planning and research. It was scrapped in 2016 after three years of public outcry, delays and a... Read More about ‘Kindling the fire’ of NHS patient data exploitations: The care.data controversy in news media discourses.

E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries (2021)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2021). E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries. Social Studies of Science, 51(4), 606-627. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312721989818

Normative, scientific and economic pledges to Electronic Health Record (EHR) data-driven research (for health and wealth) attempt to reconfigure public health data as an asset for realising multiple values across healthcare, research and finance. In... Read More about E-Infrastructures and the divergent assetization of public health data: Expectations, uncertainties, and asymmetries.

Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: free riding or distributive justice? (2019)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2019). Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: free riding or distributive justice?. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(8), 1585-1599. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12969

We draw on findings from qualitative interviews with health data researchers, GPs and citizens who opted out from NHS England's care.data programme to explore controversies and negotiations around data sharing in the NHS. Drawing on theoretical persp... Read More about Resisting big data exploitations in public healthcare: free riding or distributive justice?.

Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis (2019)
Journal Article
Timmons, S., Vezyridis, P., & Sahota, O. (2019). Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis. Sociology of Health and Illness, 41(6), 1104-1119. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12889

This paper analyses the 'failure' of a patient safety intervention. Our study was part of an RCT of bed and bedside chair pressure sensors linked to radio pagers to prevent bedside falls in older people admitted to hospital. We use agential realism w... Read More about Trialling technologies to reduce hospital in‐patient falls: an agential realist analysis.

Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks (2017)
Journal Article
Timmons, S., & Vezyridis, P. (2017). Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks. Sociology of Health and Illness, 39(7), 1242-1257. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12584

Biobanks are vital for biospecimen production in research, despite the regulatory, recruitment and commercial difficulties they face. We conducted interviews with clinicians, researchers, volunteers who recruit biobank participants, regulators and NH... Read More about Market-driven production of biospecimens and the role of NHS hospital-led biobanks.

Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth (2017)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2017). Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth. Big Data and Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716688490

The analysis of data from electronic health records aspires to facilitate healthcare efficiencies and biomedical innovation. There are also ethical, legal and social implications from the handling of sensitive patient information. The paper explores... Read More about Understanding the care.data conundrum: new information flows for economic growth.

The evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output (2016)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (in press). The evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output. BMJ Open, 6(10), Article e012785. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012785

Objective:To identify publication and citation trends, most productive institutions and countries, top journals, most cited articles and authorship networks from articles that used and analysed data from primary care databases (CPRD, THIN, QResearch)... Read More about The evolution of primary care databases in UK: a scientometric analysis of research output.

Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt-out forms (2016)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2016). Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt-out forms. Journal of Medical Ethics, 42, https://doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2016-103654

Background Care.data was a programme of work led by NHS England for the extraction of patient-identifiable and coded information from general practitioner GP records for secondary uses. This study analyses the forms (on the websites of GP practices)... Read More about Dissenting from care.data: an analysis of opt-out forms.

On the adoption of personal health records: some problematic issues for patient empowerment (2015)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2015). On the adoption of personal health records: some problematic issues for patient empowerment. Ethics and Information Technology, 17(2), 113-124. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-015-9365-x

Workplace violence against clinicians in Cypriot emergency departments: a national questionnaire survey (2014)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., Samoutis, A., & Mavrikiou, P. M. (2015). Workplace violence against clinicians in Cypriot emergency departments: a national questionnaire survey. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 24(9-10), 1210-1222. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.12660

National targets, process transformation and local consequences in an NHS emergency department (ED): a qualitative study (2014)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2014). National targets, process transformation and local consequences in an NHS emergency department (ED): a qualitative study. BMC Emergency Medicine, 14(1), Article 12. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-227x-14-12

Implementing lean methods in the Emergency Department: The role of professions and professional status (2014)
Journal Article
Timmons, S., Coffey, F., & Vezyridis, P. (2014). Implementing lean methods in the Emergency Department: The role of professions and professional status. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 28(2), 214-228. https://doi.org/10.1108/jhom-10-2012-0203

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the implementation of lean methods in an Emergency Department (ED) and the role of the professions in this process.

Design/methodology/approach
Qualitative, semi-structured interviews with ED staff... Read More about Implementing lean methods in the Emergency Department: The role of professions and professional status.

Implementing an emergency department information system: an Actor-Network Theory case study (2014)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., & Timmons, S. (2014). Implementing an emergency department information system: an Actor-Network Theory case study. International Journal of Actor-Network Theory and Technological Innovation, 6(1), 17-30. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijantti.2014010102

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are increasingly used in healthcare settings. Despite their technical robustness, their implementation has not always been straightforward. This is a case study of the implementation of a clinical info... Read More about Implementing an emergency department information system: an Actor-Network Theory case study.

Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Experience (2012)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., Timmons, S., & Wharrad, H. J. (2012). Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Experience. Computers, Informatics, Nursing, 30(10), 540–546. https://doi.org/10.1097/NXN.0b013e3182573b04

This article explores the reactions of nurses toward the implementation of an emergency department information system. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 nurses, and data were analyzed using thematic analysis. The results suggest that d... Read More about Implementation of an Emergency Department Information System: A Qualitative Study of Nurses’ Attitudes and Experience.

The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients (2012)
Journal Article
Chalari, E., Intas, G., Stergiannis, P., Veziridis, P., & Fildissis, G. (2012). The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly, 35(3), 292-298. https://doi.org/10.1097/CNQ.0b013e318255d6b3

Background: Vital signs are indicators of a patient presenting to an emergency department (ED). Abnormal vital signs have been associated with an increased likelihood of admission to the hospital. Physicians have long recognized the importance of vit... Read More about The importance of vital signs in the triage of injured patients.

Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking (2011)
Journal Article
Vezyridis, P., Timmons, S., & Wharrad, H. (2011). Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking. International Journal of Medical Informatics, 80(7), 455-465. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2011.04.001

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine nurses' attitudes and reflection on the transformation of their workpractices after the implementation of an Emergency Department Information System (EDIS). Methods: A qualitative study using intervie... Read More about Going paperless at the emergency department: A socio-technical study of an information system for patient tracking.