Complexity science articles by Professor Braithwaite

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Braithwaite J, Zurynski Y, Smith CL, editors. The Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Health System Sustainability. Routledge. 2024

Churruca, K., Ellis, L.A., Pope, C., MacLellan, J., Zurynski, Y. and Braithwaite, J. (2023). The place of digital triage in a complex healthcare system: An interview study with key stakeholders in Australia's national provider. Digital Health, 9. doi: 10.1177/20552076231181201 [https://doi.org/10.1177/20552076231181201]

Braithwaite, J., Dammery, G., Spanos, S., Smith, C.L., Ellis, L.A., Churruca, K., Fisher, G., Zurynski, Y. Learning health systems 2.0: Future-proofing healthcare against pandemics and climate change. A White Paper. Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University: Sydney, Australia, 2023. ISBN: 9781741385014.

Braithwaite, J. (2022) Complexity science. In: Rapport, F., Clay-Williams, R. and Braithwaite, J. (eds) Implementation Science: The Key Concepts. London, UK, Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 7-12.

Pomare, C., Gardiner, B., Ellis, L.A., Long, J.C., Churruca, K., and Braithwaite, J. (2022). “The times they are a-changin’”: A longitudinal, mixed methods case study of a hospital transformation. Plos one, 17(10), e0272251. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0272251 [https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0272251]

Nic Giolla Easpaig, B., Tran, Y., Winata, T., Lamprell, K., Fajardo Pulido, D., Arnolda, G., Delaney, G.P., Liauw, W., Smith, K., Avery, S., Rigg, K., Westbrook, J., Olver, I., Currow, D., Karnon, J., Ward, R.L. and Braithwaite, J. (2022) The complexities, coordination, culture and capacities that characterise the delivery of oncology services in the common areas of ambulatory settings. BMC Health Services Research. 22, 1, 190. doi: 10.1186/s12913-022-07593-3.  [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07593-3]

Ellis L, Sarkies M, Churruca K, Dammery G, Meulenbroeks I, Smith C, Pomare C, Mahmoud Z, Zurynski Y, Braithwaite J The Science of Learning Health Systems: Scoping Review of Empirical Research JMIR Med Inform 2022;10(2):e34907 URL: https://medinform.jmir.org/2022/2/e34907 DOI: 10.2196/34907

Best, S., Long, J. C., Gaff, C., Braithwaite, J. and Taylor, N. (2021). Organizational perspectives on implementing complex health interventions: clinical genomics in Australia, Journal of Health Organization and Management. doi: 10.1108/JHOM-12-2020-0495 [https://doi.org/10.1108/JHOM-12-2020-0495]

Churruca, K., Ludlow, K., Wu, W., Gibbons, K., Nguyen, H. M., Ellis, L. A., & Braithwaite, J. (2021). A scoping review of Q-methodology in healthcare research. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 21, 125. doi: 10.1186/s12874-021-01309-7 [https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-021-01309-7]

Braithwaite, J., Ellis, L., Churruca, K., Long, J., Hibbert, P. and Clay-Williams, R. (2021). Complexity science as a frame for understanding the management and delivery of high quality and safer care. In: Donaldson, L., Ricciardi, W., Sheridan, S. and Tartaglia, R. (eds) Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk Management. Cham, Switzerland, Springer, pp. 375-391. [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59403-9_27]

Long, J.C., Gul, H., McPherson, E., Best, S., Augustsson, H., Churruca, K., Ellis, L. A., and Braithwaite, J. (2021). A dynamic systems view of clinical genomics: a rich picture of the landscape in Australia using a complexity science lens. BMC Medical Genomics, 14: 63. doi: 10.1186/s12920-021-00910-5

Rapport, F., & Braithwaite, J. (Eds.). (2021). Transforming Healthcare with Qualitative Research. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Best, S., Stark, Z., Phillips, P., Wu, Y., Long, J., Taylor, N., Braithwaite, J., Christodoulou, J. and Goranitis, I. (2020). Clinical genomic testing: What matters to key stakeholders? European Journal of Human Genetics, 1-8 Published February 5. doi.org/10.1038/s41431-020-0576-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41431-020-0576-1

Ellis, L.A., Augustsson, H., Grødahl, A.I., Pomare, C., Churruca, K., Long, J.C., Ludlow, K., Zurynski, Y.A. and Braithwaite, J. (2020). Implementation of e-mental health for depression and anxiety: a critical scoping review. Journal of Community Psychology. Available online: 16 January 2020. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22309.

Cunningham, F., Ranmuthugala, G., Westbrook, J. and Braithwaite, J. (2019) Tackling the wicked problem of health networks: the design of an evaluation framework. BMJ Open, 9(5):e024231. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024231.https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/9/5/e024231.info

Bueno, W.P., Saurin, T.A., Wachs, P. Kuchenbecker, R. and Braithwaite, J. (2019) Coping with complexity in intensive care units: a systematic literature review of improvement interventions. Safety Science, 118: 814-852. doi: 10.1016/j.ssci.2019.06.023. [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0925753518321118?dgcid=author]

Herkes, J., Churruca, K., Ellis, L.A., Pomare, C. and Braithwaite, J. (2019) How people fit at work: a systematic review of the association between person-organisation and person-group fit with staff outcomes in healthcare. BMJ Open. 9(5): e026266. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-026266.

Churruca, K., Pomare, C., Ellis, L.A., Long, J.C. and Braithwaite, J. (2019) The influence of complexity: a bibliometric analysis of complexity science in healthcare. BMJ Open, 9:e027308. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027308.

Taylor, N., Best, S., Martyn, M., Long, J.C., North, K., Braithwaite, J. and Gaff, C. (2019) A transformative translational change programme to introduce genomics into healthcare: a complexity and implementation science study protocol. BMJ Open, 9:e024681. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024681

Braithwaite, J., Ellis, L.A., Churruca, K. and Long, J.C. (2018) The goldilocks effect: the rhythms and pace of hospital life. BMC Health Services Research, 18:529. doi: 10.1186/s12913-018-3350-0. [https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12913-018-3350-0]

Pomare, C., Long, J.C., Ellis, L.A., Churruca, K. and Braithwaite, J. (2018) Interprofessional collaboration in mental health settings: a social network analysis. Journal of Interprofessional Care. doi: 10.1080/13561820.2018.1544550. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13561820.2018.1544550]

Pomare, C., Churruca, K., Ellis, L.A., Long, J.C. and Braithwaite, J. (2019) A revised model of uncertainty in complex healthcare settings: a scoping review. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice. doi:10.1111/jep.13079. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jep.13079

Braithwaite, J.,Churruca, K., Long, J.C., Ellis, L.A. and Herkes, J. (2018) When complexity science meets implementation science: a theoretical and empirical analysis of systems change. BMC Medicine, 16:63. doi: 10.1186/s12916-018-1057-z.[https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12916-018-1057-z]

Braithwaite, J. (2018) Growing Inequality: bridging complex systems, population health, and health disparities.International Journal of Epidemiology, 47(1): 351-353. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyy001.[https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/47/1/351/4819238]

Braithwaite,J., Churruca, K., Ellis, L. A., Long, J., Clay-Williams, R., Damen, N., Herkes, J., Pomare, C.,  and  Ludlow,  K.(2017) Complexity  Science  in Healthcare–Aspirations,  Approaches, Applications and  Accomplishments: A  White  Paper. Australian Institute of Health  Innovation, Macquarie University: Sydney, Australia.

Braithwaite, J., Herkes, J., Ludlow, K., Testa, L. and Lamprell, G. (2017) Association between organisational and workplace cultures, and patient outcomes: systematic review. BMJ Open, 7(11): e017708. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017708. [http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e017708]

Braithwaite, J., Churruca, K. and Ellis, L.A. (2017) Can we fix the uber-complexities of healthcare? Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 110(10): 392-394. doi: 10.1177/0141076817728419. [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0141076817728419]

Ellis, L.A., Churruca, K. and Braithwaite, J. (2017) Mental health services conceptualised as complex adaptive systems: what can be learned? International Journal of Mental Health Systems, 11: 43. doi: 10.1186/s13033-017-0150-6. [http://rdcu.be/tNBp]

Braithwaite, J., Westbrook, J., Coiera, E., Runciman, W.B., Day, R., Hillman, K. and Herkes, J. (2017) A systems science perspective on the capacity for change in public hospitals. Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 6: 16. doi: 10.1186/s13584-017-0143-6. [https://ijhpr.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13584-017-0143-6]

Clay-Williams, R. and Braithwaite, J. (2015) Reframing implementation as an organisational behaviour problem: inside a teamwork improvement intervention. Journal of Health Organization and Management, 29(6): 670-683. doi: 10.1108/JHOM-11-2013-0254. [http://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/full/10.1108/JHOM-11-2013-0254]

Fairbrother, G., Chiarella, M. and Braithwaite, J. (2015) Models of care choices in today’s nursing workplace: where does team nursing sit? Australian Health Review, 39(5): 489-453. doi: 10.1071/AH14091. [http://www.publish.csiro.au/?act=view_file&file_id=AH14091.pdf]

Long, J.C., Cunningham, F.C., Carswell, P and Braithwaite, J. (2014) Patterns of collaboration in complex networks: the example of a translational research network. BMC Health Services Research, 14: 225. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-225. [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/14/225]

Nugus, P., Forero, R., McCarthy, S., McDonnell, G., Travaglia, J., Hillman, K. and Braithwaite J. (2014) The emergency department "carousel": an ethnographically-derived model of the dynamics of patient flow. International Emergency Nursing, 22(1): 3-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ienj.2013.01.001. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755599X13000025]

Georgiou, A., Marks, A., Braithwaite, J. and Westbrook, J.I. (2013)Gaps, disconnections and discontinuities - the role of information exchange in the delivery of quality long term care. The Gerontologist, 53(5): 770-9.doi: 10.1093/geront/gns127. [http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/5/770.long]

Long, J.C., Cunningham, F.C., Carswell, P. and Braithwaite, J. (2013) Who are the key players in a new translational research network? BMC Health Services Research, 13: 338. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-338. [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/338]

Long, J.C., Cunningham, F.C. and Braithwaite J. (2013) Bridges, brokers and boundary spanners in collaborative networks: a systematic review. BMC Health Services Research, 13: 158. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-158. [http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/13/158]

Long, J.C., Cunningham, F.C., Wiley, J., Carswell, P. and Braithwaite, J. (2013) Leadership in complex networks: the importance of network position and strategic action in a translational cancer research network. Implementation Science, 8: 122. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-122. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3854121/]