Supporting Collaboration to Preserve the Quality of Life of Patients at Home—A Design Case Study

Computer-Supported Knotworking

“…Rapid knotworking, though necessary in life-threatening situations, may, in the long term, hinder interprofessional care; only the nurses who are the initiators of the rapid knotworking retain "the essence of the knot" for further related knots, while the other collaborators do not have this knowledge. This difference between rapid and brief knotworking was also identified in one of the rare studies illustrating knotworking in home care settings [2]. Most of the above mentioned studies use knotworking for the analysis of teams and interprofessional collaboration healthcare, but do not include technology nor innovation in their studies.…”

“…These situations are of short duration, involving changing participants where control is distributed. Indeed, knotworking has been suggested by several other studies as a potential theoretical framework to address issues related to the development of the organization of work across boundaries, like interprofessional care teams [2,4,23].…”

“…We will report briefly on the study and its results below. A more detailed description of the study including a more extensive methodology description can be found in [2].…”

“…In this paper, we compare two cases in two European countries in which the collaborative work is characterized by contingent fluctuations between the stability of cooperators and normal intensity of work, and unexpected and pressing situations, where cooperation between new actors has to be established immediately. Thus, we compare the work done at the CareFacility that supports discharged hospital patients to return to an active life at home in Denmark [12] and home care provision by the HomeCareAlliance in France [2].…”

Emergent Collaborations Outside of Organizational Frameworks: Exploring Relevant Concepts

“…They may involve individuals or groups not previously working together and may lead to creating new knowledge, solutions, or innovations where actors come. Literature from C&T and related fields referring -though not always explicitly -to emergent collaborations include research on situations of change, such as emergencies [13], [14], routine tasks, for example, within healthcare but where some of the participating actors are always new and not part of the formal healthcare system [15], or the disruption of usual services due to the Covid-19 pandemic [16], ways in which the selfemployed organize [17], as well as volunteer work in other contexts (e.g., [18], [19]).…”