Table 3.

Topic themes for articles on complexity science applied to healthcare

Topic themes	Number of articles*	Citations per year
Management and leadership	49	4.0
Education	59	5.9
Teamwork, collaboration and care coordination	31	4.8
Health systems and organisations generally	76	6.0
Public health and health promotion	31	4.4
Safety, quality and performance	22	2.4
Change, improvement and implementation	39	5.1
Research	14	4.7
Healthcare policy	10	2.3
Health settings	146	3.4
Aged and nursing care	21	5.7
Ambulatory care	2	0.8
Chronic care	9	4.3
Hospital	53	2.7
Mental health	6	1.9
Paediatrics	3	3.9
Palliative care	4	1.3
Primary care	48	6.4
Healthcare professionals	71	3.6
Allied health	2	0.3
Medicine	19	7.3
Nursing and midwifery	44	2.7
General	6	4.0
Other	33	3.5

*Topic themes are not mutually exclusive, except within subthemes of health settings and healthcare professionals.