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Item Details
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COMPLEXITY AND HEALTHCARE
AN INTRODUCTION |
| By: |
Kieran Sweeney (Editor), Frances Griffiths (Editor), Paul E. Plsek (Foreword) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£28.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1857755596 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781857755596 |
| Publisher: |
RADCLIFFE PUBLISHING LTD |
| Pub. date: |
31 July, 2002 |
| Edition: |
1st New edition |
| Pages: |
144 |
| Description: |
Providing an introduction to complexity in healthcare, this text starts with a history of the idea, and includes coverage of complexity in a clinical environment, in epidemiology and public health, in the healthcare organization and in the context of primary healthcare research. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations(some col.) |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Radcliffe Publishing Ltd |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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