Complexity and Healthcare by Kieran Sweeney
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.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781857755596 |
| ISBN 10 | 1857755596 |
| Title | Complexity and Healthcare |
| Author | Kieran Sweeney |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Year published | 2002-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 144 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |