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McDaniel Jr RR, Driebe DJ. Complexity science and health care management. Advances in health care management. 2001;2:11-36
Review /Overview
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Organisations - healthcare
Complex adaptive systems
Many problems can be understood and solved as simple linear cause and effect relationships, but many more in large organisations such as health care services arise from complex non-linear interactions among multiple factors and often conflicting objectives. Such interactions often manifest unexpected, ill-understood and usually unwanted emergent properties. This paper provides a good overview of these complex adaptive systems in health care services and how they need to be managed.
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