ARCH Corpus
Members of the ARCH core group have been collecting and analysing video recordings of naturally occurring interactions between health practitioners and patients since 2003. These have now been logged and transcribed and are permanently archived along with various related data. This data set, together with a custom- designed information management system comprises the ARCH Corpus, a searchable digitised collection of health care interactions and related data for use in interaction analysis.
The ARCH Corpus is the first data set of its kind in New Zealand:
- A “living data bank” of digitally recorded New Zealand health interactions and associated information collected since 2003 (not a formally structured corpus) where data is permanently archived (with consent of participants) for use by authorised researchers and educators
- A comprehensive data management system has been developed (including a searchable ACCESS database, logs and transcripts)
- The ARCH Corpus includes: (1) video/audio recordings of consultations, other patient-health professional interactions, and professional interactions and meetings; (2) interviews, focus groups,(3) ethnographic and demographic data; (4) medical records & other documents
- Development of the ARCH Corpus: (1) First data collected 2003-05 for an interactional study of clinical decision making when rationing is explicit (Video recordings of 75 GP & surgical consultations -17:40 hrs (2) Corpus project initiated October 2005; (3) Data from 2 Tracking Studies and other projects added since 2006, collection continues
The ARCH Corpus: summary statistics (as at 1/06/2011)
Total Number of Participants: 347
Patients (PT): 249
General Practitioners (GP): 30
Specialists (SP): 22
Nurses (NS): 31
Other health professionals (HP): 15
Total Number of Health Interactions: 399
(excludes interviews)
GP-PT: 217
SP-PT: 58
NS-PT: 89
HP-PT: 23
PP: 6
Total Number of Sites: 35
Interviews: