Complexity and Healthcare
An Introduction
Published on 31. July 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-85775-559-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book illustrates the relevance of chaos and complexity theory to healthcare organisations public health clinical governance and the consultation. It explains the terms and ideas at the heart of complexity the unfamiliar science behind it and how it applies to the real world. In healthcare the NHS is a complex adaptive system. So are hospitals general practices diseases and patients. The book describes how insights from complexity can help us better understand how organisations patients or disease develop over time in an often unpredictable manner. Contributors set out the benefits of applying complexity to their own particular areas of healthcare. Complexity and Healthcare will be of special interest to clinicians and managers in primary and secondary care researchers and academics and in particular general practitioners and public health professionals.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations(some col.)
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85775-559-6 (9781857755596)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Introduction to complexity; history of complexity; clinical knowledge, chaos and complexity; complexity and the clinical encounter; complexity in epidemiology and public health; complexity and the healthcare organisation; clinical governance and complexity; complexity and primary healthcare research.