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Review of Basic Principles

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We describe eight basic principles of Trajectory Analysis that are applicable to health care: continuous change, multiple variables, action and non-action causes and effects, systems resiliency, the Lyapunov exponent as a measure of change, Type 0 phase shifts to generate change, energy potentials and health, and poor health as chaos. The science of nonlinear and trajectory dynamics is growing rapidly, although it remains mostly theoretical. Cardiology and neuroscience have introduced these concepts to improve human health. Our next steps are to expand this science into health care to support current statistical and epidemiological methods.

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Phase response curve

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Hollar, D.W. (2018). Review of Basic Principles. In: Trajectory Analysis in Health Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59626-6_17

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