Dynamics of Emergency Department Crowding Initial Simplest Simulation of the View from the waiting room. Start of a simple introductory series which proceeds to IM-338  A simple CLD is at IM-340

Base del modelo territorial de Ciudad Hermosa

Una adaptación del URBAN1 Model from Navid Ghaffarzadegan, John Lyneis and George P Richardson's How small system dynamics models can help the public policy process at System Dynamics Review 27: 22-44 (2011) (click here to view full paper). 

WIP based on right care series in Lancet and OECD Tackling wasteful spending on health book 

Festinger's theory of cognitive dissonance represented in feedback loops, relevant to defensive behaviours, goal conflict in PCT and mental health  From p256 Fig 4.23 of George Richardson (1991) Book Feedback Thought in Social Science and Systems Theory,. Book reviewed here 

This is the Concept map at IM-735  modified to reflect the learning after system dynamics modeling at IM-393, 

A basic conceptual model to evaluate Government regulation of the food industry on community health and health & social costs. Would regulation have a negative impact on the overall budget in the short and longer term?

From SDR Jan 2012 article  and 1988 killian award lectures Youtube

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.

Level of biological organization linking cell level division and population level evolution

From Daniel H Kim (1993) Sloan Management Revew article based on Ch2 of his 1993 MIT PhD Thesis A FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR LINKING INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING:APPLICATIONS IN TQM AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Showing how multiple effect loops for private patients in public hospitals can be represented as a causal loop diagram (CLD)

Improvement Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies IM-17952

Services planning for people with intellectual disability concept map. Stock and FLow model is Insight 668 and  RIch Picture is Insight  746

A Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) disease model with waning immunity

An overview of Thomas A Goudge's Book on The Thought of CS Peirce Dover NY 1950 and Thomas Knight's Book Charles Peirce NY 1965. See also causality insight

Causal loop diagram patient centric version of Insight 691, unfolding the complexity of medication management.

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.

This linkage map represents the links between crisis resolution faced by healthcare managers. Administrative officer's are responsible for specific communication channels to ensure and maintain control during emergency situations to ensure the safety of patients, medical staff and affected populations.

From Nancy Leveson Vioxx Recall Study in CH8 Engineering a Safer World and Couturier's MIT ESD Thesis

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