Complexity in Primary Care: Understanding Its Value

Sweeney K. Complexity in Primary Care: Understanding Its Value. Oxon: Radcliffe Publishing Ltd; 2006. This book can be obtained from www.radcliffe-oxford.com for $45.Is evidence-based medicine (EBM) the only type of knowledge that clinicians use (or need to use) during patient consultations? A more likely situation is that we use several different explanatory models or “ways of knowing” as the frameworks in which we see patients in day-to-day clinical practice. This book tries to make sense of these different “ways of knowing” and introduces a new model based on complexity theory. The premise of Kieran Sweeney's book, Complexity in Primary Care: ...