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ReviewInternational journal of health policy and management2023

Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research: Drivers and Challenges in a Synergetic Complementarity Comment on "Insights Gained From a Re-analysis of Five Improvement Cases in Healthcare Integrating System Dynamics Into Action Research".

Mohammadreza Zolfagharian

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Review 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

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Mohammadreza ZolfagharianDecision Sciences and Complex Systems Group, Faculty of Islamic Studies and Management, Imam Sadiq University, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0003-1363-4814

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This commentary discusses the paper by Holmström et al that explored how system dynamics (SD) may contribute effectively to an action research (AR) process to improve five health case studies. Accordingly, we reviewed some of the methodological aspects of the proposed integration of SD into AR using ongoing debates on multi-methodology and mixed methods research. In a systemic evaluation of the proposed design, we concentrated on some of the common distinct features of SD and AR, and the challenges as well as the expected outcomes of this integration. Finally, we tried to position the suggested framework within the multi-methodology efforts and to pave the way for developing it in future research and practice.

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Health Services ResearchSystems IntegrationAction ResearchMixed MethodsModellingMultimethodologySimulationSystem Dynamics

Identifiers

PMID38618789
PMCPMC10699812

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