Citation
(2003), "Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 16 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2003.06216aae.005
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction
Complexity and Healthcare: An Introduction
Edited by K. Sweeney and F. GriffithsRadcliffe Medical Press2002ISBN 1 857 75559 6
This book illustrates the relevance of chaos and complexity theory to health care 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 health care the NHS is a complex adaptive system. So are hospitals, general practice, diseases and patients. Complexity and Healthcare describes how insights from complexity can help us better understand how organisations, patients or diseases develop over time, often in an unpredictable way. Contributors set out the benefits of applying complexity to their own areas of health care.