TY - JOUR T1 - Resource review JF - Evidence Based Medicine JO - Evid Based Med SP - 189 LP - 189 DO - 10.1136/ebm.12.6.189 VL - 12 IS - 6 AU - Matthew J Thompson Y1 - 2007/12/01 UR - http://ebm.bmj.com/content/12/6/189.abstract N2 - Is evidence-based medicine (EBM) the only type of knowledge that clinicians use (or need to use) during patient consultations? A more likely situation is that we use several different explanatory models or “ways of knowing” as the frameworks in which we see patients in day-to-day clinical practice. This book tries to make sense of these different “ways of knowing” and introduces a new model based on complexity theory. The premise of Kieran Sweeney’s book is that complexity theory can provide clinicians with a way of understanding clinical care. If, like me, you had never heard of complexity theory, this book provides an excellent introduction to the topic and how it relates particularly to the application of EBM … ER -