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Clinical Pathways to Disability [PDF]
, 2007 This paper examines the pathways by which individuals transition from healthy to disabled. Because of the high prevalence and costs associated with disability, understanding these pathways is critical to developing interventions to prevent or minimize disability.
Mary Beth Landrum +2 more
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Impact of clinical pathways in surgery [PDF]
Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery, 2008 One strategy to reduce the consumption of resources associated to specific procedures is to utilize clinical pathways, in which surgical care is standardized and preset by determination of perioperative in-hospital processes. The aim of this prospective study was to establish the impact of clinical pathways on costs, complication rates, and nursing ...
Müller, M K +5 more
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A Primer on Clinical Pathways [PDF]
Hospital Pharmacy, 2016 Leaders in health-system pharmacy are challenged to maintain the highest quality pharmacy service at the lowest cost. Clinical pathways are evidence-based road maps that assist in reducing variations in clinical practice. Integration of clinical pathways within the electronic health record further helps to facilitate evidence-based practice.
Erik Abel, Robert J. Weber, Rachel Hipp
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Clinical pathways in psychiatry [PDF]
British Journal of Psychiatry, 2008 SummaryThis editorial summarises the literature on the use of care pathways in psychiatry. Further, it considers the case-mix clusters used in care pathways in relation to health service financial tariff and currency systems, and also reviews the evidence for the effectiveness of clinical ...
Evans-Lacko, Sara E +3 more
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Reducing clinical variations with clinical pathways: do pathways work? [PDF]
International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2003 To test clinical pathways in a variety of Italian health care organizations in 2000-2002 to measure performance in decreasing process and outcome variations.Creation of indicators, specific for each clinical pathway, to measure variations in the care processes and outcomes.
PANELLA, Massimiliano +2 more
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Clinical pathways in China – an evaluation [PDF]
International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, 2015 Purpose – Clinical pathways (CPs) are multidisciplinary care plans with essential care steps for patients with specific clinical problems. CPs were introduced in China in 2009 to assure quality, reduce risks, increase resource efficiency and control costs. The purpose of this paper is to present a Chinese public hospital
He, Alex Jingwei, Yang, Wei
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Modeling a Clinical Pathway for Contraception [PDF]
Applied Clinical Informatics, 2019 Abstract Background The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) produced a 72-page document titled “U.S. Selective Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use” in 2016. This document contains the medical eligibility criteria (MEC) for contraceptive initiation or continuation based on a patient's current health status.
Sooter, Letha J. +4 more
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Enhancing Clinical Pathway Placement [PDF]
Quality Management in Health Care, 1998 Soaring health care costs have fueled the immense growth in managed care. To contain these costs, health care organizations have turned to clinical pathways. However, clinical pathways cannot do an effective job if health care personnel are not aware of their existence.
Joseph Payne +3 more
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Transforming Clinical Pathways [PDF]
Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, 2020 [ ]urine albumin to creatinine ratio is often measured at the point-of-care in a network of clinics Because of limited data on the quality of this test, Tamika Regnier, BMedSc, and colleagues investigate this aspect using 16 years of analytical quality data Adil I Khan, MSc, PhD Adil I Khan, MSc, PhD, is an associate professor of pathology at the
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Measuring clinical pathway adherence
Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2010 As clinical pathway adoption continues worldwide, it is necessary to establish adherence measurement methods in order to understand the difficulties and results of implementation. Adherence measurement literature mostly provides binary measurements of adherence to guidelines regarding individual medical activities over patient groups.
Stef Zeemering +2 more
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