Use of complexity theory in health and social care: a scoping review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the use of a wide variety of improvement tools and approaches, healthcare organisations continue to struggle in several key areas. Complexity-informed approaches have the potential to offer health and social care a new paradigm for understanding, designing, implementing and evaluating solutions, yet so far has failed to gain the traction anticipated some years ago. There is a growing need for high quality syntheses of the existing knowledge base in this area and given the diversity of theory and approaches, a scoping review is the best approach to curate this knowledge.

Methods

A scoping review of relevant literature from January 2000 to present, using the refined Arksey and O'Malley six-stage framework will be conducted. This protocol will follow the Pr

SUBMITTER: Carroll A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8319978 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature