What football teaches us about complex health interventions

KEY MESSAGES Like football, healthcare is a complex adaptive system in which interventions are also complex Healthcare researchers can learn from football about describing the important components of interventions more comprehensively Approaches that take the complexity of interventions into account...

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Published in:BMJ (Online) 2012-12, Vol.345 (7888), p.25-27
Main Authors: Clark, Alexander M, Briffa, Thomas G, Thirsk, Lorraine, Neubeck, Lis, Redfern, Julie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical nursing research
Design analysis
Health care industry
Health outcomes
Mental health outcomes
Morale
Observational research
Psychoeducational intervention
Research fellowships
SPORT
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Summary:KEY MESSAGES Like football, healthcare is a complex adaptive system in which interventions are also complex Healthcare researchers can learn from football about describing the important components of interventions more comprehensively Approaches that take the complexity of interventions into account could help explain outcomes better so that more can be learnt from failure Taking complexity of healthcare research into account would improve the quality, usefulness, and translation of research into practice
ISSN:0959-8138
1756-1833