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2024-02-05

Anderson RA, McDaniel Jr RR. Managing health care organizations: where professionalism meets complexity science. Health Care Management Review. 2000;25(1):83.

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Organisations - hospitals

Complex adaptive systems

An informative and detailed review of the nature of healthcare organisations as complex adaptive systems, and the consequences for those working at the interface between managers and healthcare professionals. Figure 1 provides a useful list of the leadership tasks needed in complex adaptive systems compared with those in a conventional bureaucracy

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