Complexity and Simplicity in Doctor–Patient Email Consultations

Simplicity and Complexity in Contracts

Standard economic models of contract imply that contracts should be highly “complex,” by which we mean (1) rich in the expected number of payoff-relevant contingencies; (2) variable in the magnitude of payoffs contracted to flow between parties; and (3) severe in the cognitive load necessary to understand the contract. Yet most realworld contracts are simple along all three of these dimensions....

Complexity, simplicity, and epidemiology.

It should be stressed that although many phenomena are complex, 15 the concept of ‘complexity’ is more specific. Complexity is the study of complex adaptive systems. These have been defined as ‘a collection of individual agents with freedom to act in ways that are not always totally predictable, and whose actions are interconnected so that one agent’s actions changes the context for other agent...

Email consultations in health care: 1--scope and effectiveness.

Email consultations in health care: 2--acceptability and safe application.

Email may have an important role in augmenting and facilitating communication between patients and healthcare professionals. In this article we summarise the evidence describing public and professional attitudes to using email in routine clinical care and explore issues relating to ensuring such use is safe. Specifically, we aim to answer three questions: x How acceptable is email consulting to...

Spirolaterals, Complexity from Simplicity

This paper investigates spirolaterals for their beauty of form and the unexpected complexity arising from them. From a very simple generative procedure, spirolaterals can be created having great complexity and variation. Using mathematical and computer-based methods, issues of closure, variation, enumeration, and predictictability are discussed. A historical review is also included. The overrid...