Between demarcation and discretion: The medical-administrative boundary as a locus of safety in high-volume organisational routines
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.03.005
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UK; Patient safety; Professional boundaries; Medical-administrative boundary; Negotiated order perspective; General practice; Organisational routines; Ethnography;All these keywords.
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