Complexity and healthcare organization : a view from the street /
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Oxford ; San Francisco :
Radcliffe Medical,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- Getting to grips with the basics
- Models, metaphors and paradigms : making sense of the world and the road to complexity
- Chaos theory and its relationship to complexity
- An introduction to complexity theory
- The spectrum of how we think about organizations
- An introduction to systems theory : from hard to soft systems thinking in the management of complex organizations
- Organizations as learning systems
- Making sense of organizational change in practice : change as complex responsive processes
- Complexity perspectives on healthcare organization
- Complexity and the development of organizational theory
- The search for the correct organization solution for the NHS
- Organizational culture and complexity
- Leadership and change
- Facilitating emergence in healthcare organizations
- Allocating limited healthcare resources
- Improving patient access in a large medical practice : a complex and complicated system problem
- Agent-based working : a device for systemic dialogue
- Using the visual arts to facilitate emergence in organizations
- Using the performing arts to facilitate emergence in organizations
- Going on together in organizations : perspectives on healthcare provision
- Progressing clinical governance through complexity : from managing to co-creating
- Skill mix in the NHS : adaptability or efficiency
- Adaptation in action : the NHS modernisation agency's critical care programme
- Educating the healthcare professional for capability
- Going on together in organizations : perspectives on whole sytems
- Social networks in organizations : social capital and health
- Organization and communities of practice
- Imagining complex partnerships
- From theory to action : personal perspectives
- Community regeneration and complexity
- Running an organization along complexity lines
- Whole-systems working in practice : this house is for real
- Complex adaptive systems : interesting theory or useful practice : the Piedmont Hospital bed control experiment
- Applying complexity theory to primary healthcare organizations
- Using complexity science in community health promotion : novel perspectives and a tool for change