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ReviewThe Milbank quarterly2023

Toward a Values-Informed Approach to Complexity in Health Care: Hermeneutic Review.

Trisha Greenhalgh, Eivind Engebretsen, Roland Bal, Sofia Kjellström

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Review in The Milbank quarterly, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Working With Value Complexity in Healthcare.Qualitative health research · 2026
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  6. Rural perinatal nursing in Canada: A hermeneutic literature review.International journal of nursing studies advances · 2025
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  8. Commentary: Without Values, Complexity is Reduced to Mathematics.Journal of evaluation in clinical practice · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Trisha GreenhalghUniversity of Oxford.
Eivind EngebretsenUniversity of Olso.ORCID 0000-0001-9455-110X
Roland BalErasmus University Rotterdam.
Sofia KjellströmJönköping University.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Policy Points The concept of value complexity (complexity arising from differences in people's worldviews, interests, and values, leading to mistrust, misunderstanding, and conflict among stakeholders) is introduced and explained. Relevant literature from multiple disciplines is reviewed. Key theoretical themes, including power, conflict, language and framing, meaning-making, and collective deliberation, are identified. Simple rules derived from these theoretical themes are proposed.

Indexed as

Delivery of Health CareHermeneuticsHumanscomplexityhermeneutic reviewnarrativepragmatismquality improvementvalue complexity

Identifiers

PMID37219239
PMCPMC10509518

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