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Priesmeyer HR, Sharp LF, Wammack L, Mabrey JD. Chaos theory and clinical pathways: a practical application. Quality Management in Healthcare. 1996;4(4):63.

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Organisations - healthcare

Complex adaptive systems

Although much has been written about the nature of many healthcare services as complex adaptive systems and the consequent 'wicked' problems and unexpected emergent properties, not a great deal of this literature gives much practical guidance in the development and use of useful analytical tools. This paper is an exception in that it explores the possible application of a very simple form of analysis and data display - the phase map.

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