%0 Thesis %A Wu, Lin %D 2019 %T The organization of primary care consultations (acute visits) in Chinese public hospitals %U https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/The_organization_of_primary_care_consultations_acute_visits_in_Chinese_public_hospitals/9479813 %2 https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/ndownloader/files/17104757 %K Primary care doctor–patient communication %K Conversation analysis %K Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified %K Studies in Human Society not elsewhere classified %X This research is one of the first studies of Chinese primary care doctor-patient communication. The study collected a large data corpus of video-recorded acute-visit consultations from two outpatient clinics of an ordinary Chinese hospital. The analysis uses primarily conversation analysis (CA) method to uncover the moment-by-moment interactional and sequential patterns during primary care encounters; in doing so, contributing to our understanding of the social organization of Chinese primary care medicine. %I Loughborough University