A systems approach to healthcare: from thinking to -practice.
dc.contributor.author | Clarkson, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Dean, John | |
dc.contributor.author | Ward, James | |
dc.contributor.author | Komashie, Alexander | |
dc.contributor.author | Bashford, Tom | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-11-23T00:31:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-11-23T00:31:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-10 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2514-6645 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/285771 | |
dc.description.abstract | Medicine is increasingly complex, involving a highly connected system of people, resources, processes, and institutions. Attempts to improve care involve disruptions to this system, with the potential for wide-ranging consequences, both positive and negative. Despite this, many improvement methodologies are poorly equipped to manage either complexity or risk - instead focusing on discrete interventions whose effects are narrowly monitored. Engineers have long understood that complex problems require a systems view, and that attempts to make things better can themselves introduce new risk into a system. Given this, an engineering systems approach may be of significant value to those trying to improve healthcare. Two fundamental questions emerge from such an approach: what can we do better, and what could possibly go wrong? This paper describes the evolution of a systems approach to healthcare, and explores a recently co-developed framework outlining a systems approach based upon a synergy between healthcare and engineering. | |
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dc.language | eng | |
dc.publisher | Royal College of Physicians | |
dc.title | A systems approach to healthcare: from thinking to -practice. | |
dc.type | Article | |
prism.endingPage | 155 | |
prism.issueIdentifier | 3 | |
prism.publicationDate | 2018 | |
prism.publicationName | Future Healthc J | |
prism.startingPage | 151 | |
prism.volume | 5 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17863/CAM.33115 | |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2018-09-04 | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.7861/futurehosp.5-3-151 | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.uri | http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved | |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2018-10 | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Clarkson, John [0000-0001-8018-7706] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Ward, James [0000-0002-0362-4711] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Komashie, Alexander [0000-0002-0715-4729] | |
dc.contributor.orcid | Bashford, Tom [0000-0003-0228-9779] | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2514-6653 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
pubs.funder-project-id | Department of Health (via National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)) (16/137/105) | |
cam.issuedOnline | 2018-10-04 | |
rioxxterms.freetoread.startdate | 2019-10-01 |
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