Hospital Patient Engagement Goals Analysis via Document and Interview Data

25 participant interviews and organizational documents from a hospital system were analyzed using critical discourse analysis to explore goals for patient and family engagement. The research, authored by Umair Majid and last updated in March 2026, identifies the prominence of medical and care professional logics in hospital goals. The underlying dataset is a 5.5 KB XLS file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze the prevalence of different institutional logics (e.g., medical professional, market) based on coded interview and document data.
• Compare stated goals for patient engagement between different hospital roles (e.g., executives, clinicians, patient partners) based on the participant categories.
• Study the relationship between organizational documents and staff perceptions of hospital goals based on the critical discourse analysis methodology.

Strengths

• Dataset is based on a mixed-methods study involving 25 participant interviews from diverse hospital roles.
• Analysis covers multiple data sources, including organizational documents and interviews, as described in the methods.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is very small at 5.5 KB, indicating limited scope.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Umair Majid.

Collection Method

Critical discourse analysis of organizational documents and interviews with 25 participants from one hospital system.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-18 17:29:40; freshness should be verified.