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The Paradox of Intervening in Complex Adaptive Systems Comment on "Using Complexity and Network Concepts to Inform Healthcare Knowledge Translation"
2018
International Journal of Health Policy and Management
This commentary addresses two points raised by Kitson and colleagues' article. First, increasing interest in applying the Complexity Theory lens in healthcare needs further systematic work to create some commonality between concepts used. Second, our need to adopt a better understanding of how these systems organise so we can change the systems overall behaviour, creates a paradox. We seek to manipulate systems that self-organise and follow their own internal rules. Although, our actions may
doi:10.15171/ijhpm.2018.05
pmid:29935137
pmcid:PMC6015514
fatcat:54wmujrfkbetlbnxqieeg2nb6y