Institute of Public Health, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate memberof Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Instituteof Health, Institute of Public Health, Berlin, Germany; Institute for Theatre, Film, and Media Studies, University of Vienna, Austria.
Institute of Social Medicine and Epidemiology, Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane, Germany;Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Berlin Institute of Health, Institute of Public Health, Berlin, Germany.
Soc Stud Sci. 2019 Aug;49(4):583-604. doi: 10.1177/0306312719863139.
Accountability has become a buzzword in recent years, applied in such disparate fields as education, academia, international politics and economics. For cohort studies, epidemiological literature and guidelines put forward several ideals to assure the quality of the generated data to make it accountable. Social scientific scholarship in turn has shown that in practice, such demands can lead to tensions and needs for balance 'on the ground'. We take such insights as a starting point to explore these balancing acts. Based on an ethnographic investigation into the examination and data-gathering situations and practices within a German cohort study, we suggest that 'courtesy work' is intrinsic to the development of accountable data as a foundation for the establishment and stabilization of epidemiological facts. As such, courtesy work is part of accountable care work in epidemiological studies, which is in turn a key part of the quality assurance practices that ensure the enrollment and maintenance of people in a study, as well as the production of standardized measurement results.
近年来，问责制已成为一个流行词，应用于教育、学术界、国际政治和经济等截然不同的领域。对于队列研究、流行病学文献和指南提出了一些理想的方法来保证所产生数据的质量，使其具有可问责性。社会科学学术研究反过来表明，在实践中，这些要求可能会导致紧张局势，并需要在“实地”进行平衡。我们以此为出发点来探讨这些平衡行为。基于对德国一项队列研究中检查和数据收集情况及实践的民族志调查，我们提出，“礼貌工作”是负责任的数据发展的内在要求，是建立和稳定流行病学事实的基础。因此，礼貌工作是流行病学研究中负责任的护理工作的一部分，而这反过来又是确保人们参与和维持研究以及产生标准化测量结果的质量保证实践的关键部分。
