Rich picture version of Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model, with the addition of clinical reasoning cycle concepts from T Levett-Jones et al Nurse Education Today 30 (2010) 515-520
Thinking like a nurse rich pic
Multilevel context mechanisms and outcomes for hospital infection control
Hospital Infection Factors Levels
Simple Bass diffusion modified from Sterman Business Dynamics Ch9. Compare with the SI infectious disease model Insight 584.
Clone of Clone of Diffusion of Innovation Bass Model
WIP map of ebola in west Africa based on African Affairs
Article and SEIR framework
Ebola diseases and Structural Violence
Business case for investment in national eHealth Infrastructure Programs
Clone of National eHealth Program Benefits
From the Plausibility of life book esp p 220-227 Constraints that deconstrain
Facilitated Variation and Evolvability
A Medical Imaging View of Patient Flows through ED Imaging Workup. See IM-375 for an extended map
ED-Imaging Patient Flow 1
Dynamic system underlying project life cycles From Roberts Edward B The Dynamics of Research and Development p5 Harper & Row NY 1964
The dynamics of Research and Development
A simple error chain of medication errors for patients in hospital. Serious medication errors in inpatients with drug orders sometimes result in Adverse Drug Events (ADE) and Deaths. See next IM-646
Medication error inpatients 1
Kermack–McKendrick Epidemic SIR Infectious Disease Model - Metrics by Guy Lakeman
This is a simple SIR infectious diseases 3 stock model with Susceptibles, Infectives and Recovereds stocks. In the initial description the R signified Removed and could include Deaths, Recovered with immunity to infection (Resistant) or those who had fled the epidemic. Note the need to initiate the epidemic by adding a pulse of a single infected person at time 0.
Clone of Clone of Kermack–McKendrick Epidemic SIR Infectious Disease Model - Metrics by Guy Lakeman
From David Rees PhD dissertation "Developing a Theory of Implementation for
Better Chronic Health Management" Health Services Research
Centre, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Implementing Chronic Care Management
Emergency care patient flows IM-6072 used as context to add confounders and potential unintended effects.
Clone of Confounding Interventions and Unintended Effects of the Four Hour Rule
A Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) disease model with waning immunity
Clone of SIR Model with waning immunity
Rich picture version of causal loop diagram for medication errors, showing the importance of reporting, analyzing and fixing knowledge and process errors. Medication errors will tend to grow due to the use of more medications in more complex patients. This is exacerbated by the loss of staff knowledge by turnover and goal erosion in places with harmful errors.
Clone of Medication error CLD
From Werner Ulrich's JORS Articles Operational research and critical systems thinking – an integrated perspective. Part 1: OR as applied systems thinking. Journal of the Operational Research Society advance online publication (14 December 2011). and Part 2 :OR as argumentative practice.
See also insight on Boundary Critique
Critical Systems Thinking
A simple generic rich picture view of interactions among people with needs services and resources, which can be used as a pattern for many individual health care insights. This has been extended in IM-731
Health Care Interactions
Based on Norbari APHA presentation 2016 An agent-based model to examine the impact of unaffordable housing on obesity risk in early childhood, via Kurt Kreuger
Housing and Food in Childhood Obesity
Summary of US apa2017 report pdf link
Stress and Health Disparities
Addition of glucagon hormone action to control glucose homeostasis extended from IM-586
Clone of Clone of Glucose regulation CLD 2
Based on Psychological Medicine Dec 2015 article Depression as a systemic syndrome: mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder by A. K. Wittenborn, H. Rahmandad, J. Rick and N. Hosseinichimeh, mentioned here
Clone of Depression Dynamics
Based on Psychological Medicine Dec 2015 article Depression as a systemic syndrome: mapping the feedback loops of major depressive disorder by A. K. Wittenborn, H. Rahmandad, J. Rick and N. Hosseinichimeh, mentioned here
Clone of Clone of Depression Dynamics
This model is based on the article Dynamic modeling of Infectious Diseases, An application to Economic Evaluation of Influenza Vaccination Farmacoeconomics 2008, 26(1): 45-56 .
And EBOLA
Dynamic Modeling of Infectious Diseases
A simple medical workforce model of doctor flows, population and service growth.
Medical Workforce Simple
From blog entry understandingsociety
Meaning and Causation. Expanded from IM-1163
Social Mechanisms