Health care: a case of hypercomplexity?

Health Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 104-110

  Klein, Jonathan H ^a   Young, Terry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

complexity; health service; systems

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE;

EID: 85029814572     PISSN: 20476965     EISSN: 20476973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/hs.2014.21     Document Type: Article

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