Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Action Research
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Khresheh, R.
Right arrow Articles by Barclay, L.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Practice—research engagement (PRE)

Jordanian experience in three Ministry of Health hospitals

Reham Khresheh

Mutah University, Jordan

Lesley Barclay

Charles Darwin University, Australia

This article describes the practice—research engagement (PRE) that occurred during an action research project conducted in three hospitals in Jordan. The project aimed to develop and test the feasibility of an improved clinical record-keeping system. This article focuses on how relationships were built and evolved over time with national and local leaders and practitioners to facilitate the study, and how this led to a process of health system improvement. The article draws on outcomes and analyses from data collected in field notes, recorded interviews and focus groups. Results showed that the PRE approach assisted people to change as they undertook a process of clinical improvement and health systems development.

Key Words: action research clinical improvement • partnerships • practitioners— researchers engagement • system development

Action Research, Vol. 5, No. 2, 123-138 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1476750307077313
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?