How complexity science is transforming healthcare

The SAGE Handbook of Complexity and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 617-635

  Zimmerman, Brenda ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4135/9781446201084.n36     Document Type: Chapter

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