Health Systems

ISE magazine's monthly column about healthcare (February 2020)

Addressing wicked problems in patient care

By Peter Woodbridge

While improving the eight flows of healthcare – patients, families, providers, medications, supplies, information, equipment, instruments – that benefit from linear improvement methods, the core patient care functions of diagnosing, selecting treatments and providing bedside care are resistant to deterministic improvement approaches.


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