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. 2015 Apr-Jun;38(2):83-95.
doi: 10.1097/ANS.0000000000000063.

Adaptive leadership framework for chronic illness: framing a research agenda for transforming care delivery

Ruth A Anderson  1 , Donald E Bailey Jr, Bei Wu, Kirsten Corazzini, Eleanor S McConnell, N Marcus Thygeson, Sharron L Docherty
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Adaptive leadership framework for chronic illness: framing a research agenda for transforming care delivery

Ruth A Anderson et al. ANS Adv Nurs Sci. 2015 Apr-Jun.

Abstract

We propose the Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness as a novel framework for conceptualizing, studying, and providing care. This framework is an application of the Adaptive Leadership Framework developed by Heifetz and colleagues for business. Our framework views health care as a complex adaptive system and addresses the intersection at which people with chronic illness interface with the care system. We shift focus from symptoms to symptoms and the challenges they pose for patients/families. We describe how providers and patients/families might collaborate to create shared meaning of symptoms and challenges to coproduce appropriate approaches to care.

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Our interpretation of Heiftz et al's Adaptive Leadership Framework.
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Chronic illness dynamics.
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Dynamics of technical and adaptive challenges.
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The Adaptive Leadership Framework for Chronic Illness.
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