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Better and fulfilling healthcare at lower costs: The need to manage health systems as complex adaptive systems

2019-06-05

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Rising healthcare costs are major concerns in most high-income countries. Yet, political measures to reduce costs have so far remained futile and have damaged the best interests of patients and citizen. We therefore explored the possibilities to analyze healthcare systems as a socially constructed complex adaptive system (CAS) and found that by their very nature such CAS tend not to respond as expected to top-down...

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10.12688/f1000research.19414.1
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