TY - JOUR AU - Pype, Peter AU - Mertens, Fien AU - Helewaut, Fleur AU - Krystallidou, Demi PY - 2018 DA - 2018/07/20 TI - Healthcare teams as complex adaptive systems: understanding team behaviour through team members’ perception of interpersonal interaction JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 570 VL - 18 IS - 1 AB - Complexity science has been introduced in healthcare as a theoretical framework to better understand complex situations. Interdisciplinary healthcare teams can be viewed as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) by focusing more on the team members’ interaction with each other than on the characteristics of individual team members. Viewing teams in this way can provide us with insights into the origins of team behaviour. The aim of this study is to describe the functioning of a healthcare team as it originates from the members’ interactions using the CAS principles as a framework and to explore factors influencing workplace learning as emergent behaviour. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3392-3 DO - 10.1186/s12913-018-3392-3 ID - Pype2018 ER -