Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems

"Our analyses have implications for efforts to improve healthcare system performance and patient outcomes. Understanding differences in the ways that uncertainty is manifest in different clinical scenarios will lead to an improved understanding of the types of improvement efforts that will be most likely to be effective."

Manifestations and implications of uncertainty for improving healthcare systems: an analysis of observational and interventional studies grounded in complexity science
LK Leykum et al.
Implementation Science 2014, 9:165  doi:10.1186/s13012-014-0165-1

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Attempting to govern uncertainty in healthcare management

"The Good Governance Institute (GGI)  supports organisations to enhance their capacity to govern and control, but is increasingly asked what tools or techniques could be deployed to help boards protect their organisations against a broad set of high-consequence risks."

Countering the biggest risk of all: attempting to govern uncertainty in healthcare management
P Moore
Good Governance Institute
May 2013

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Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs

"This research was commissioned to inform when NICE should approve health technologies only in research (OIR) or with research (AWR)."

Uncertainty, evidence and irrecoverable costs: Informing approval, pricing and research decisions for health technologies
K Claxton, S Palmer, L Longworth, L Bojke, S Griffin, C McKenna, M Soares, E Spackman, J Youn
Centre for Health Economics
October 2011

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