Professor Davina Allen

(she/her)

2024

• Evans, E., Palmer, S., Gambling, T., Sparkes, V. and Allen, D. 2024. Development of an aid to detect adult acetabular hip dysplasia (the ALPHA alert): a mixed methods study. Musculoskeletal Science and Practice 73, article number: 103157. (10.1016/j.msksp.2024.103157)
• Felder, M., Kuijper, S., Allen, D., Bal, R., Wallenburg, I. and RN2Blend consortium, . 2024. Job crafting as retention strategy: An ethnographic account of the challenges faced in crafting new nursing roles in care practice. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 39(3), pp. 722-739. (10.1002/hpm.3780)
• Allen, D. 2024. Why is hospital discharge so difficult? Reconsidering patient trajectories in theory and practice: Insights from an ethnographic study of transitions in hip fracture care. Social Science & Medicine 347, article number: 116769. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.116769)

2023

• Allen, D., Jacob, N., Strange, H., Jones, A., Burton, C. and Rafferty, A. M. 2023. “It's not just about the numbers”: Inside the black box of nurses' professional judgement in nurse staffing Systems in England and Wales: Insights from a qualitative cross-case comparative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 147, article number: 104586. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2023.104586)
• Desai, A., Zoccatelli, G., Donetto, S., Robert, G., Allen, D., Rafferty, A. M. and Brearley, S. 2023. The qualities of data: how nurses and their managers act on patient feedback in an English hospital. Journal of Organizational Ethnography 12(2), pp. 194-208. (10.1108/JOE-06-2022-0014)
• Roland, D. et al. 2023. Paediatric early warning systems: not a simple answer to a complex question. Archives of Disease in Childhood 108(5), pp. 338-343. (10.1136/archdischild-2022-323951)

2022

• Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an early warning system improvement programme for children in hospital: the PUMA mixed-methods study. Health and Social Care Delivery Research 10(1) (10.3310/CHCK4556)
• Allen, D. et al. 2022. Development, implementation and evaluation of an evidence-based paediatric early warning system improvement programme: the PUMA mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research 22(1), article number: 9. (10.1186/s12913-021-07314-2)

2021

• Jacob, N., Burton, C., Hale, R., Jones, A., Lloyd, A., Rafferty, A. M. and Allen, D. 2021. Pro-judge study: nurses’ professional judgement in nurse staffing systems. Journal of Advanced Nursing 77(10), pp. 4226-4233. (10.1111/jan.14921)
• Read, S. et al. 2021. Normalisation process theory and the implementation of a new glaucoma clinical pathway in hospital eye services: perspectives of doctors, nurses and optometrists. PLoS ONE 16(8), article number: e0255564. (10.1371/journal.pone.0255564)
• Donetto, S., Desai, A., Zoccatelli, G., Allen, D., Brearley, S., Rafferty, A. M. and Robert, G. 2021. Patient experience data as enacted: Sociomaterial perspectives and 'singular-multiples' in health care quality improvement research. Sociology of Health & Illness 43(4), pp. 1032-1050. (10.1111/1467-9566.13276)
• Allen, D. 2021. Prioritising the mobilisation of emergency medical services: patient making at the healthcare gateway. Journal of Health Organization and Management 35(2), pp. 160-176. (10.1108/JHOM-07-2020-0305)

2020

• Waterman, H. et al. 2020. Acceptability, adherence and economic analyses of a new clinical pathway for the identification of non-responders to glaucoma eye drops: a prospective observational study. British Journal of Ophthalmology 104(12), pp. 1704-1709. (10.1136/bjophthalmol-2019-315436)
• Moore, S. C. et al. 2020. Evaluating alcohol intoxication management services: the EDARA mixed-methods study. Health Services and Delivery Research 8(24), pp. 1-214. (10.3310/hsdr08240)
• Read, S. et al. 2020. Chronic conditions and behavioural change approaches to medication adherence: rethinking clinical guidance and recommendations. Patient Preference and Adherence 14, pp. 581-586., article number: 52446. (10.2147/PPA.S239916)
• Noyes, J. et al. 2020. Standardised self-management kits for children with type 1 diabetes: pragmatic randomised trial of effectiveness and cost-effectiveness. BMJ Open 10(3), article number: e032163. (10.1136/bmjopen-2019-032163)

2019

• Jacob, N. et al. 2019. Optimising paediatric afferent component early warning systems: a hermeneutic systematic literature review and model development. BMJ Paediatrics Open 9(11), article number: e028796. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028796)
• Donetto, S., Desai, A., Zoccatelli, G., Robert, G., Allen, D., Brearley, S. and Rafferty, A. M. 2019. Organisational strategies and practices to improve care using patient experience data in acute NHS hospital trusts: an ethnographic study. Health Services and Delivery Research 7(34), pp. 1-112. (10.3310/hsdr07340)
• Allen, D., Purkis, M. E., Rafferty, A. M. and Obstfelder, A. 2019. Integrating preparation for care trajectory management into nurse education: competencies and pedagogical strategies. Nursing Inquiry 26(3), article number: e12289. (10.1111/nin.12289)
• Trubey, R. et al. 2019. Validity and effectiveness of paediatric early warning systems and track and trigger tools for identifying and reducing clinical deterioration in hospitalised children: a systematic review. BMJ Open 9(5), pp. -., article number: e022105. (10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022105)
• Allen, D. 2019. Care trajectory management: a conceptual framework for formalising emergent organisation in nursing practice. Journal of Nursing Management 27(1), pp. 4-9. (10.1111/jonm.12645)
• Donetto, S., Chapman, C., Brearley, S., Rafferty, A. M., Allen, D. and Robert, G. 2019. Exploring the impact of patient experience data in acute NHS hospital trusts in England: using Actor-Network Theory to optimise organisational strategies and practices for improving patients' experiences of care. Health Services and Delivery Research 14(156), article number: 8.
• Allen, D. 2019. Institutionalising emergent organisation in health and social care. Journal of Health Organization and Management 33(7/8), pp. 764-775. (10.1108/JHOM-10-2018-0275)

2018

• Thomas-Jones, E. et al. 2018. A prospective, mixed-methods, before and after study to identify the evidence base for the core components of an effective paediatric early warning system and the development of an implementation package containing those core recommendations for use in the UK: Paediatric early warning system – utilisation and mortality avoidance– the PUMA study protocol. BMC Pediatrics 18(1), article number: 244. (10.1186/s12887-018-1210-z)
• Allen, D. 2018. Analysing healthcare coordination using translational mobilization. Journal of Health Organization and Management 32(3), pp. 358-373. (10.1108/JHOM-05-2017-0116)
• Allen, D. 2018. Translational mobilisation theory: a new paradigm for understanding the organisational elements of nursing work. International Journal of Nursing Studies 79, pp. 36-42. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.10.010)
• Irving, A., Goodacre, S., Blake, J., Allen, D. and Moore, S. C. 2018. Managing alcohol-related attendances in emergency care: can diversion to bespoke services lessen the burden?. Emergency Medicine Journal 35(2), pp. 79-82. (10.1136/emermed-2016-206451)

2017

• Visser, K. S., Button, K. and Allen, D. 2017. Health-enhancing physical activity interventions for children and young people with neuro-disabilities: A Systematic Review Protocol. Presented at: HEPA Europe, 15-17 November 2017.
• Allen, D. 2017. From polyformacy to formacology. BMJ Quality & Safety 26(9), pp. 695-697. (10.1136/bmjqs-2017-006677)
• Michel, L., Waelli, M., Allen, D. A. and Minvielle, E. 2017. The content and meaning of administrative work: a qualitative study of nursing practices. Journal of Advanced Nursing 73(9), pp. 2179-2190. (10.1111/jan.13294)
• Allen, D. and May, C. R. 2017. Organizing practice and practising organization: an outline of translational mobilization theory. Sage Open 7(2) (10.1177/2158244017707993)
• Desai, A. et al. 2017. Taking data seriously: the value of actor-network theory in rethinking patient experience data. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 22(2), pp. 134-136. (10.1177/1355819616685349)

2016

• Gould, D., Hale, R., Waters, E. and Allen, D. 2016. Promoting health workers' ownership of infection prevention and control: using Normalization Process Theory as an interpretive framework. Journal of Hospital Infection 94(4), pp. 373-380. (10.1016/j.jhin.2016.09.015)
• Gould, D., Gallagher, R. and Allen, D. A. 2016. Leadership and management for infection prevention and control: what do we have and what do we need?. Journal of Hospital Infection 94(2), pp. 165-168. (10.1016/j.jhin.2016.07.005)
• Allen, D. A. 2016. The importance, challenges and prospects of taking work practices into account for healthcare quality improvement. Journal of Health Organisation and Management 30(4), pp. 672-689. (10.1108/JHOM-04-2014-0062)
• Allen, D. A., Braithwaite, J., Sandall, J. and Waring, J. 2016. Towards a sociology of healthcare safety and quality. Research in the Sociology of Health Care 38(2), pp. 181-197. (10.1111/1467-9566.12390)
• Waring, J., Allen, D. A., Braithwaite, J. and Sandall, J. 2016. Healthcare quality and safety: a review of policy, practice and research. Sociology of Health and Illness 38(2), pp. 198-215. (10.1111/1467-9566.12391)
• Allen, D. A. et al. eds. 2016. The sociology of healthcare safety and quality. Wiley Blackwell.

2015

• Allen, D. 2015. Inside ‘bed management’: ethnographic insights from the vantage point of UK hospital nurses. Sociology of Health and Illness 37(3), pp. 370-384. (10.1111/1467-9566.12195)

2014

• Allen, D. 2014. Re-conceptualising holism in the contemporary nursing mandate: from individual to organisational relationships. Social Science and Medicine 119, pp. 131-138. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.036)
• Noyes, J. P. et al. 2014. Developing and evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management using mixed methods and a multicentre randomised controlled trial. Health Services and Delivery Research 2(8), pp. 1-442. (10.3310/hsdr02080)
• Allen, D. A. 2014. The invisible work of nurses: hospitals, organisation and healthcare. New York: Routledge.
• Allen, D. A. 2014. Lost in translation? ‘evidence’ and the articulation of institutional logics in integrated care pathways: from positive to negative boundary object?. Sociology of Health and Illness 36(6), pp. 807-822. (10.1111/1467-9566.12111)

2013

• Hannigan, B. and Allen, D. A. 2013. Complex caring trajectories in community mental health: contingencies, divisions of labor and care coordination. Community Mental Health Journal 49(4), pp. 380-388. (10.1007/s10597-011-9467-9)
• Allen, D. A. 2013. Fieldwork and participant observation. In: Bourgeault, I., Dingwall, R. and De Vries, R. eds. Sage Handbook on Qualitative Health Research (2nd edition). SAGE Publications, pp. 353-372.
• Allen, D. A. 2013. "Just a typical teenager": The social ecology of "normal adolescence" - insights from diabetes care. Symbolic Interaction 36(1), pp. 40-59. (10.1002/symb.42)
• Allen, D. A. 2013. Understanding context for quality improvement: artefacts, affordances and socio-material infrastructure. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 17(5), pp. 460-477. (10.1177/1363459312464072)
• Allen, D. A., Swallow, V., Nightingale, R. and Williams, J. 2013. Multidisciplinary teams, and parents, negotiating common ground in shared-care of children with long-term conditions: a mixed methods study. BMC Health Services Research 13(1), article number: 264. (10.1186/1472-6963-13-264)

2012

• Allen, D. A. et al. 2012. Continuity of care in the transition from child to adult diabetes services: A realistic evaluation study. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 17(3), pp. 140-148. (10.1258/jhsrp.2011.011044)
• Swallow, V. M. et al. 2012. Pan-Britain, mixed-methods study of multidisciplinary teams teaching parents to manage children's long-term kidney conditions at home: Study protocol. BMC Health Services Research 12, article number: 33. (10.1186/1472-6963-12-33)
• Hourahane, P. G., West, N., Barnes, R. C., Bowyer, A., Dundon, J. and Allen, D. A. 2012. Supporting trail blazing: A systematic review of the factors that facilitate or inhibit the implementation of new nursing roles: the experiences of UK consultant nurses. Joanna Briggs Institute Library of Systematic Reviews 10(50), pp. 3416-3294.

2011

• Williams, A. M. et al. 2011. Children's health information matters: researching the practice of and requirements for age appropriate health information for children and young people. [Final report. NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme]. Project Report. [Online]. NETSCC. Available at: http://www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/files/project/SDO_FR_08-1718-145_V01.pdf
• Hannigan, B. and Allen, D. A. 2011. Giving a fig about roles: Policy, context and work in community mental health care. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 18(1), pp. 1-8. (10.1111/j.1365-2850.2010.01631.x)
• Allen, D. A., Channon, S. J., Lowes, L. M., Atwell, C. and Lane, C. 2011. Behind the scenes: the changing roles of parents in the transition from child to adult diabetes service. Diabetic Medicine 28(8), pp. 994-1000. (10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03310.x)
• Allen, D. A. 2011. Bringing it all back home: The (re)domestication and (de)medicalisation of care. In: Ceci, C., Purkis, M. and Bjnsdtir, K. eds. Homecare: International and Comparative Perspectives.. Routledge, pp. 101-120.

2010

• Allen, D. A. 2010. Care pathways: an ethnographic description of the field. International Journal of Care Pathways 14(1), pp. 4-9. (10.1258/jicp.2009.009015)
• Allen, D. A. et al. 2010. The transition from paediatric to adult diabetes services: what works, for whom and in what circumstances? [Final report. NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation programme]. Project Report. [Online]. HMSO. Available at: http://www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/files/project/SDO_FR_08-1504-107_V01.pdf
• Allen, D. A. 2010. Care pathways: some social scientific observations on the field. International Journal of Care Pathways 14(2), pp. 47-51. (10.1258/jicp.2009.009016)
• Noyes, J. P. et al. 2010. Evidence into practice: evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management The EPIC Project. BMC Pediatrics 10(70) (10.1186/1471-2431-10-70)

2009

• Allen, D. A. 2009. From boundary concept to boundary object: the practice and politics of care pathway development. Social Science and Medicine 69(3), pp. 354-361. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2009.05.002)
• Allen, D. A., Gillen, E. and Rixson, L. J. 2009. Systematic review of the effectiveness of integrated care pathways: what works, for whom, in what circumstances?. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare 7(2), pp. 61-74. (10.1111/j.1744-1609.2009.00127.x)
• Allen, D. A. and Gregory, J. W. 2009. The transition from children's to adult diabetes services: understanding the 'problem'. Diabetic Medicine 26(2), pp. 162-166. (10.1111/j.1464-5491.2008.02647.x)

2008

• Gillen, E., Biley, F. and Allen, D. 2008. Effects of music listening on adult patients' pre-procedural state anxiety in hospital. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare 6(1), pp. 24-49. (10.1111/j.1479-6988.2007.00097.x)
• Gillen, E., Biley, F. and Allen, D. A. 2008. The effects of music listening on pre-procedural state anxiety. International Journal of Evidence Based Healthcare 6(1), pp. 24-49. (10.1111/j.1744-1609.2007.00097.x)
• Allen, D. A. and Rixson, L. 2008. How has the impact of 'care pathway technologies' on service integration in stoke care been measured and what is the strength of the evidence to support their effectiveness in this respect?. International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare 6(1), pp. 78-100. (10.1111/j.1479-6988.2007.00098.x)

2007

• Exley, C. and Allen, D. A. 2007. A critical examination of home care: end of life care as an illustrative case. Social Science & Medicine 65(11), pp. 2317-2327. (10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.07.006)
• Satherley, P. A. M., Allen, D. A. and Lyne, P. A. 2007. Supporting evidence based service delivery and organisation: A comparison of an emergent realistic appraisal technique with a standard qualitative critical appraisal tool. International journal of evidence based health care 5(4), pp. 446-455. (10.1111/j.1479-6988.2007.00062.x)
• Merrell, J., Carnwell, R., Williams, A. M., Allen, D. A. and Griffiths, L. 2007. A survey of school nursing provision in the UK. Journal of Advanced Nursing 59(5), pp. 463-473. (10.1111/j.1365-2648.2007.04310.x)
• Davies, B. and Allen, D. A. 2007. Integrating 'mental illness' and 'motherhood': The positive use of surveillance by health professionals. A qualitative study. International Journal of Nursing Studies 44(3), pp. 365-376. (10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2005.11.033)
• Taylor, S. and Allen, D. A. 2007. Visions of evidence based practice. Nurse Researcher 15(1), pp. 78-83.
• Allen, D. A. 2007. What did you do at work today? Profession-building and doing nursing. International Nursing Review, pp. 41-48.

2006

• Allen, D. A. and Pilnick, A. 2006. The social organisation of healthcare work. Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs. Wiley-Blackwell.
• Allen, D. A. and Lyne, P. A. eds. 2006. The reality of nursing research: politics, practices and process. London: Routledge.
• Allen, D. A. and Hannigan, B. 2006. Negotiating a proposal through gate-keeping committees. In: Allen, D. A. and Lyne, P. A. eds. The Reality of Nursing Research: Politics, Practices and Process. London: Routledge, pp. 88-104.
• Evans, N. G. and Edmunds, L. 2006. Selecting a topic. In: Allen, D. and Lyne, P. eds. The reality of nursing research: politics, practices and processes. Abingdon: Routledge
• Hannigan, B. and Allen, D. A. 2006. Complexity and Change in the United Kingdom's System of Mental Health Care. Social Theory & Health 4(3), pp. 244-263. (10.1057/palgrave.sth.8700073)

2005

• Pilnick, A. and Allen, D. A. 2005. Making connections: Healthcare as a case study in the social organisation of work. Sociology of Health and Illness 27(6), pp. 683-700. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.2005.00469.x)

2004

• Allen, D. A. 2004. Re-reading nursing and re-writing practice: Towards an empirically-based reformulation of the nursing mandate. Nursing Inquiry 11(4), pp. 271-283. (10.1111/j.1440-1800.2004.00234.x)
• Allen, D. A., Griffiths, L. and Lyne, P. A. 2004. Understanding complex trajectories in health and social care provision. Sociology of Health and Illness 26(7), pp. 1008-1030. (10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00426.x)
• Allen, D. A., Griffiths, L. and Lyne, P. A. 2004. Accommodating health and social care need:routine resource allocation processes in stroke rehabilitation. Sociology of Health and Illness 26(4), pp. 411-432. (10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00397.x)
• Allen, D. A. 2004. Ethnomethodological insights into insider/outsider relationships in nursing ethnographies of healthcare settings. Nursing Inquiry 11(1), pp. 14-24. (10.1111/j.1440-1800.2004.00201.x)

2003

• Hannigan, B. and Allen, D. A. 2003. A tale of two studies: research governance issues arising from two ethnographic investigations into the organisation of health and social care. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 40(7), pp. 685-695. (10.1016/S0020-7489(02)00111-6)

2002

• Lyne, P. A., Allen, D. A., Martinsen, C. and Satherley, P. A. M. 2002. Improving the evidence base for practice: a realistic method for appraising evaluations. Clinical effectiveness in nursing 6(2), pp. 81-88. (10.1016/S1361-9004(02)00025-0)
• Allen, D. A., Hughes, D., Jordan, S., Prowse, M. and Snelgrove, S. 2002. Nursing and the division of labour in healthcare. Sociology and Nursing Practice. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

2001

• Allen, D. A. 2001. The changing shape of nursing practice: the role of nurses in the hospital division of labour. Routledge.
• Allen, D. A. 2001. Narrating nursing jurisdiction: "atrocity stories" and "boundary work". Symbolic Interaction 24(1), pp. 75-103. (10.1525/si.2001.24.1.75)
• Dingwall, R. and Allen, D. A. 2001. The implications of healthcare reforms for the profession of nursing. Nursing Inquiry 8(2), pp. 64-74. (10.1046/j.1440-1800.2001.00100.x)

2000

• Allen, D. A. 2000. 'I'll tell you what suits me best if you don't mind me saying': A sociological analysis of lay participation in healthcare. Nursing Inquiry 7(3), pp. 182-190. (10.1046/j.1440-1800.2000.00067.x)
• Allen, D. A. 2000. Doing occupational demarcation: The 'boundary-work' of nurse managers in a district general hospital. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29(3), pp. 326-356. (10.1177/089124100129023936)
• Allen, D. A. 2000. Negotiating the role of expert carers on an adult hospital ward. Sociology of Health and Illness 22(2), pp. 149-171. (10.1111/1467-9566.00197)

1998

• Allen, D. A. 1998. Record-keeping and routine nursing practice: The view from the wards. Journal of Advanced Nursing 27(6), pp. 1223-1300. (10.1046/j.1365-2648.1998.00645.x)

1997

• Allen, D. A. 1997. The nursing-medical boundary: A negotiated order?. Sociology of Health and Illness 19(4), pp. 498-520. (10.1111/j.1467-9566.1997.tb00415.x)
• Allen, D. A. 1997. Nursing, knowledge and practice. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 2(3), pp. 190-194.
• Lyne, P. and Allen, D. A. 1997. Nurses' flexible working practices: Some ethnographic insights into clinical effectiveness. Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing 1, pp. 131-140.