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Margolis P, Peterson LE, Seid M (2013). Collaborative Chronic Care Networks (C3Ns) to transform chronic illness care. Pediatrics 131(4), pg. S219-23.
Despite significant gains by pediatric collaborative improvement networks, the overall US system of chronic illness care does not work well. A new paradigm is needed: a Collaborative Chronic Care Network (C3N). A C3N is a network-based production system that harnesses the collective intelligence of patients, clinicians, and researchers and distributes the production of knowledge, information, and know-how over large groups of people, dramatically accelerating the discovery process.