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Title: The future of burn care from a complexity science perspective
Authors: Van Zuijlen, Paul
Korkmaz, H
Sheraton, Vivek
Haanstra, Tsjitske
Pijpe, Anouk
De Vries, Annebeth
Van Der Vlies, Cornelis
Bosma, Eelke
De Jong, Evelien
Middelkoop, Esther
VERMOLEN, Fred 
Sloot, Peter
Issue Date: 2022
Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PRESS
Source: Journal of Burn Care & Research, 43 (6), p. 1312-1321
Abstract: Healthcare is undergoing a profound technological and digital transformation and has become increasingly complex. It is important for burns professionals and researchers to adapt to these developments which may require new ways of thinking and subsequent new strategies. As Einstein has put it: 'We must learn to see the world anew'. The relatively new scientific discipline "Complexity science" can give more direction to this and is the metaphorical open door that should not go unnoticed in view of the burn care of the future. Complexity sciences studies 'why the whole is more than the sum of the parts'. It studies how multiple separate components interact with each other and their environment and how these interactions lead to 'behavior of the system'. Biological systems are always part of smaller and larger systems and exhibit the behavior of adaptivity, hence the name complex adaptive systems. From the perspective of complexity science, a severe burn injury is an extreme disruption of the 'human body system'. But this disruption also applies to the systems at the organ and cellular level. All these systems follow principles of complex systems. Awareness of the scaling process at multilevel helps to understand and manage the complex situation when dealing with severe burn cases. The aim of this paper is to create awareness of the concept of complexity and to demonstrate the value and possibilities of complexity science methods and tools for the future of burn care through examples from preclinical, clinical, and organizational perspective in burn care.
Keywords: complexity science;burn care;burns;innovation;complex adaptive system
Document URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1942/37277
ISSN: 1559-047X
e-ISSN: 1559-0488
DOI: 10.1093/jbcr/irac029
ISI #: 000784808300001
Rights: The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Burn Association. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
Category: A1
Type: Journal Contribution
Validations: ecoom 2023
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