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  • Complexity and health care: Health practitioner workforce services, roles, skills and training, to respond to patients with complex needs

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    Kuipers, Pim
    Kendall, Elizabeth
    Ehrlich, Carolyn
    McIntyre, Michelle
    Barber, Elizabeth
    Amsters, Delena
    Kendall, Melissa B.
    Kuipers, Kathy
    Zeeman, Heidi
    Brownie, Sharon
    Griffith University Author(s)
    Kendall, Elizabeth
    Kendall, Melissa B.
    Zeeman, Heidi
    Kuipers, Pim
    Barber, Elizabeth
    Ehrlich, Carolyn E.
    McIntyre, Michelle K.
    Brownie, Sharon M.
    Amsters, Delena
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    2012
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    Abstract
    Complexity has a profound effect on healthcare and outcomes. It is characterised by multiple dimensions, including co-occurring or multifaceted medical conditions, age, frailty, socio-economic realities, culture, environment, behaviour and systems factors. This purposive, thematic review describes aspects of health care complexity of relevance to the health practitioner workforce and services, particularly skill development and training. It examines some key factors contributing to complexity and elucidates some of the challenges and potential in responding to patients with complex needs. The review applies two useful ...
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    Complexity has a profound effect on healthcare and outcomes. It is characterised by multiple dimensions, including co-occurring or multifaceted medical conditions, age, frailty, socio-economic realities, culture, environment, behaviour and systems factors. This purposive, thematic review describes aspects of health care complexity of relevance to the health practitioner workforce and services, particularly skill development and training. It examines some key factors contributing to complexity and elucidates some of the challenges and potential in responding to patients with complex needs. The review applies two useful conceptualisations to the topic. First, drawing from management science literature, it identifies health care complexity as a “wicked problem”. This indicates that complex health issues comprise multiple layers and dimensions, that they are associated with fragmentation and that their resolution frequently requires a diversity of players, different levels of response and a variety of methods of response, which in itself adds increasing complexity. Second the review uses the WHO International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a way of categorising some of the dimensions of complexity. The ICF depicts a comprehensive bio-psycho-social model of health and functioning and reflects dimensions and interactions that are influential in health care complexity at individual and systems levels.
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    https://www.health.qld.gov.au/ahwac/html/publications
    Copyright Statement
    © State of Queensland (Queensland Health) 2011. This document is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial 2.5 Australia licence, which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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    Health Care Administration
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/106608
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