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Complex Systems in Medicine A Hedgehog’s Tale of Complexity in Clinical Practice, Research, Education, and Management
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Complex Systems in Medicine [electronic resource] : A Hedgehog’s Tale of Complexity in Clinical Practice, Research, Education, and Management / by David C. Aron.
ISBN
9783030245931
Edition
1st ed. 2020.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XVIII, 255 p.) 31 illus., 15 illus. in color.
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Summary
This unique title explores complex systems in clinical medicine and the subsequent implementation of that knowledge into practice. Written conversationally and as a reflection on the journey of learning about complex systems, the book explores how knowledge of these systems can be applied to four key roles in academic medicine: clinical practice, education, research, and administration. Further, this title emphasizes how gaining an understanding of complex systems can greatly help a physician deal with the many challenges found in academic medicine. Unlike other books on complexity in medicine, which tend to focus on only one aspect of the management of patients, Complex Systems in Medicine deals with the multifaceted roles of a physician. The approach in this book is uniquely qualitative rather than mathematical, and is written to make it not only of interest to physicians, trainees, and allied health providers, but also to make it more accessible to a non-medical audience. The inclusion of personal anecdotes by the author provides concrete examples of the application of knowledge of complex systems in academic medicine. A first-of-its-kind contribution to the literature, Complex Systems in Medicine: A Hedgehog’s Tale of Complexity in Clinical Practice, Research, Education, and Management is not only a novel reference for medical professionals, it is an accessible tool for the non-medical audience hoping to learn more about complex systems and their direct relevance to medicine, a field that deals with the infinite variety of humans and their ills. It illustrates the consequences of the interactive elements of patient care that make medicine both a science and an art.
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Language
English
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January 07, 2020
Contents
Introduction –A Hedgehog’s Tale of Complexity
Part I Starting out
Chapter 1. Discovering Complexity
Chapter 2. Models
Part II Clinician Role
Chapter 3. Clinical Diagnosis – “Simple” Patients
Chapter 4. Complex Patients
Chapter 5. Levels and Hierarchy in Complex Systems: What gets diabetes?
Chapter 6. Managing Patients – Evidence-Based Medicine Meets Human Complexity
Part III Educator Role
Chapter 7. Taking complexity into account when teaching about diabetes
Chapter 8. Using analogies to make connections between seemingly disparate systems – the case of patient safety
Part IV Research and Administrative Roles
Chapter 9. The Complexity of Context
Chapter 10. Complexity and project outcome: Why QI projects fail to deliver on their promise and even when successful initially, they are unsustainable
Chapter 11. Why health services research fails to deliver: Complexity and Context
Chapter 12. Complexity and Management and Policy: Why our interventions go astray
Chapter 13. Precision Medicine and Complexity
Part V. Educator Role II – Teaching Complex Systems in a Business School
Chapter 14. Teacher Complexity in a business school – 1 - networks
Chapter 15. Drawing upon medicine to teach complex systems to business school students – 2 thinking in systems
Complex Systems Part VI. Reflections
Chapter 16. The Two Cultures of Complexity
Chapter 17. The Two Cultures of Medicine
Chapter 18. Dealing with Complex Systems
Chapter 19. Refraction
Appendix: Syllabus for EDMP 673: Complex Systems and Their Management, Doctorate in Management, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University.
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