From: Scoping review of complexity theory in health services research
First author | Year | Country | Setting | Professions involved | Research design | Use of complexity theory | Attributes of complexity theory used |
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Aita [31] | 2005 | USA | Primary Care | Physicians | Qualitative—Secondary Analysis of a Comparative Case Study | Data analysis | Attractors |
Anderson [57] | 1999 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Cross Sectional | Conceptual framework and interpretation of findings | Communication, Connections, Diversity |
Anderson [58] | 2003 | USA | Hospital | Nurses, Pharmacists, and Physicians | Quantitative—Cross Sectional | Conceptual framework | Connections, Diversity, Feedback |
Anderson [59] | 2003 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Cross Sectional | Conceptual framework | Communication, Connections, Diversity, Self-Organization |
Anderson [60] | 2004 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Cross Sectional | Conceptual framwork | Connections, Communication, Self Organization |
Anderson [32] | 2014 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Comparative Case Study | Conceptual framework and interpret findings | Communication, Connections, Diversity, Emergence, Non-Linearity, Self-Organization |
Brandstorp [33] | 2015 | Norway | Primary Care | Nurses and Physicians | Qualitative—Action Research | Data analysis | Attractors, Adaptation, Emergence, Feedback, Self-Organization |
Brannon [34] | 2009 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Agents, Connections, Diversity, Emergence, Feedback, Self-Organization |
Buttigieg [35] | 2013 | Malta | Rehab Hospital | Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Pharmacists, | Qualitative—Case Study | Conceptual framework | Unclear |
Colón-Emeric [61] | 2013 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Cluster Randomized Control Trial | Conceptual framework | Communication, Connections, Diversity, Self-Organization |
Colón-Emeric [36] | 2006 | USA | Long Term Care | Dieticians, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Adaptation, Communication, Diversity, Self-Organization |
Cólon-Emeric [37] | 2006 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses and Physicians | Qualitative—Comparative Case Study | Conceptual framework | Connections, Communication, Diversity, Learning |
Cucolo [38] | 2015 | Brazil | Hospital | Nurses | Qualitative—Content Analysis | Data analysis | Unclear |
Dickinson [62] | 2014 | USA | Community Health Centres and Primary Care | Physicians | Quantitative—Cluster Randomized Control Trial | Conceptual framework | Adaptation, Connections, Diversity, Learning, Reflection |
Eika [39] | 2015 | Norway | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Ethnography | Conceptual framework | Emergence, Learning, Self-Organization |
Ellis [40] | 2010 | United Kingdom | Primary Care | Nurse and Physicians | Qualitative—Comparative Case Study | Interpret findings | Adaptation, Agents, Co-Evolution, Self-Organization |
Ellis [71] | 2011 | United Kingdom | Primary Care | Nursing and Physicians | Mixed Methods—Case Study | Interpret findings | Agents, Co-Evolution, Emergence, Self-Organization |
Ellis [41] | 2011 | United Kingdom | Primary Care | Nursing and Physicians | Qualitative—Case Study | Interpret findings | Adaptation, Agents, Co-Evolution, Self-Organization |
Erdek [63] | 2004 | USA | Hospital | Nurses and Physicians | Quantitative—Prospective Cohort Study | Interpret findings | Unpredictability |
Essen [72] | 2013 | Sweden | Rheumatology Registry | Physicians and Nurses | Mixed Methods—Case Study | Data analysis and interpret findings | Equilibrium, Emergence, Feedback, Self-Organization |
Forbes-Thompson [42] | 2007 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Communication, Connections, Diversity |
Ford [73] | 2009 | USA | Hospital | Nurses | Mixed Methods—Case Study | Interpret findings | Diversity, Emergence, Relationships |
Glenn [43] | 2014 | USA | Hospital | Nurses | Qualitative—Hermeneutic Phenomenology | Conceptual framework and interpret findings | Agents, Decentralized Control, Emergence, Feedback, Non-Linearity, Self-Organization |
Haigh [64] | 2008 | United Kingdom | Hospital | Nurses | Quantitative—Retrospective Statistical Modeling | Equation to predict changes | Attractors, Equilibrium, Non-Linearity |
Hilts [44] | 2013 | Canada | Primary Care | Physicians | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Communication, Emergence, Reflection |
Karemere [45] | 2015 | Congo | Hospitals | Physicians | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Agents, Path Depenedency, Transition Phase |
Lanham [46] | 2009 | USA | Primary Care | Physicians | Qualitative—Secondary Analysis Grounded Theory | Data analysis | Agents, Connections, Diversity, Emergence, Learning |
Lanham [74] | 2013 | USA | Hospitals and Community | Nurses | Qualitative—Case Study | Interpret findings | Connections, Learning, Self-Organization |
Leykum [65] | 2007 | USA | Not Applicable | Studies that would include at minimum nurses and physicians | Quantitative—Systematic Review | Classification | Co-Evolution, Connections, Learning, Self-Organization |
Longo [47] | 2007 | Italy | Primary Care | Physicians | Qualitative—Case Study | Conceptual framework and interpret findings | Learning, Relationships |
Mash [48] | 2008 | South Africa | Community Health | Nurses and Physicians | Qualitative—Action Research | Interpret findings | Emergence, Self-Organization, Relationships |
Matthews [49] | 2007 | United Kingdom | Health Trusts | Nurses, Physicians, Pharmacists | Qualitative—Phenomenology | Conceptual framework and intertpret findings | Agents, Diversity, Emergence, Feedback, Non-Linearity, Self-Organization |
Miller [50] | 2001 | USA | Primary Care | Nurses and Physicians | Qualitative—Comparative Case Study | Data analysis | Co-Evolution, Emergence, Self-Organization |
Oyeleye [66] | 2013 | USA | Hospital | Nurses | Quantitative—Cross-Sectional | Conceptual framework | Agents, Non-Linearity, Relationships |
Pitkäaho [67] | 2015 | Finland | Hospital | Nurses | Quantitative—Retrospective | Conceptual framework | Feedback, Non-Linearity, Relationships |
Piven [51] | 2006 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analaysis | Communication, Connections, Diversity |
Provost [52] | 2015 | USA | Hospitals | Nurses, Pharmacists, Physicians | Qualitative—Field Study | Conceptual framework | Communication, Learning, Relationships |
Rangachari [53] | 2008 | USA | Hospital | Physicians | Qualitative—Grounded Theory | Conceptual framework | Attractors, Diversity, Emergence |
Rantz [54] | 2013 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Qualitative—Unclear | Conceptual framework and data analysis | Connnections, Communication, Emergence, Self-Organization |
Rantz [70] | 2012 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Randomized Controlled Trial | Conceptual framwork | Communication, Connections, Diversity |
Ruhe [55] | 2005 | USA | Primary Care | Physicians | Qualitative—Case Study | Data analysis | Communication, Connections, Diversity, Emergence, Equilibrium, Feedback |
Singh [68] | 2004 | USA | Primary Care | Nurses and Physicians | Quantitative—Unclear | Conceptual framework | Adaptation, Central Attractors, Communication, Diversity |
Sterns [69] | 2010 | USA | Long Term Care | Nurses | Quantitative—Cross Sectional | Classification | Agents, Unpredictability |
Tsasis [56] | 2012 | CAN | Health Care System | Nurses and Physicians | Qualitative—Unclear | Data analysis | Agents, Co-Evolution, Diversity, Emergence, Non-Linearity, Self-Organization |