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A complexity thinking account of the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for systems-oriented safety management.

January 27, 2021

Abreu Saurin T. Safety Sci. 2021;134:105087.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised new challenges and opportunities for quality improvement and safety science. The authors use a complexity thinking (understanding the dynamic interactions between systems) perspective to discuss the pandemic as a safety science problem with corresponding risk mitigation measures.

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