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RESEARCH ARTICLE (Open Access)

The Cynefin framework: applying an understanding of complexity to medicine

Ben Gray
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1 Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Ben Gray, Primary Health Care & General Practice, University of Otago, 23a Mein Street, PO Box 7343, Wellington, New Zealand. Email: ben.gray@otago.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 9(4) 258-261 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC17002
Published: 20 December 2017

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2017.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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