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ArticleInternational journal of health policy and management2023

Modelling a System to Help Improve It Comment on "Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research".

John Øvretveit

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Article in International journal of health policy and management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Helping Healthcare to Help Itself: A Response to the Recent Commentaries.International journal of health policy and management · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

John ØvretveitKarolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-5177-6613

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The article that this commentary considers describes the use of systems modelling in an action research (AR) project that helped improvement teams to understand the dynamics of their service as a system. This commentary seeks to make the complex article easier to understand for those unfamiliar with the subjects. It describes the advantages, disadvantages and benefits, and suggests developments of this approach for research and practice using digital technologies. The conclusion of the commentary is that dynamic system modelling combined with AR is useful for certain purposes and can produce benefits in terms of a more sophisticated understanding of systems and feedback loops for practitioners. However, there are challenges for researchers unfamiliar with AR and dynamic system modelling as well workshop facilitation expertise.

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Delivery of Health CareHealth Services ResearchHumansAction ResearchMethodologyQuality ImprovementSystem Modelling

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PMID37579472
PMCPMC10125228

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