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. 2018 Mar 25;3(2):e000768.
doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000768. eCollection 2018.

Unpicking the Gordian knot: a systems approach to traumatic brain injury care in low-income and middle-income countries

Tom Bashford  1   2   3 , P John Clarkson  1   2 , David K Menon  1   3 , Peter J A Hutchinson  1   4
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Unpicking the Gordian knot: a systems approach to traumatic brain injury care in low-income and middle-income countries

Tom Bashford et al. BMJ Glob Health. .
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Keywords: health services research; health systems; neurology; surgery; traumatology.

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Competing interests: PJC is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and lead author of the cited report ‘Engineering better care: a systems approach to health and care design and continuous improvement’.

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A systems approach as an ordered series of questions regarding general improvement (grey), people (purple), systems (green), design (pink) and risk (orange). Reproduced with permission from Engineering Better Care, Royal Academy of Engineering, Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal College of Physicians, 2017
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The ability of both engineering and traditional approaches to healthcare improvement to answer the key questions of a systems approach. Reproduced with permission from Engineering Better Care, Royal Academy of Engineering, Academy of Medical Sciences and Royal College of Physicians,2017
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