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Critical pathways—the pivotal tool

The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 1993
Case management is a nursing model that hospital administrators have implemented in an effort to reduce costs and improve quality. The pivotal tool that case management utilizes to standardize treatment plans, trend deviations from the standard, and document care is the critical pathway.
M B, Crummer, V, Carter
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Managing Critical Pathway Variances

Quality Management in Health Care, 1995
As the use of critical pathways expands at an increasing rate, we are faced with the issue of how to manage variances from the pathway. Variance management is not clearly defined in the literature, and many institutions search for the best approach. We have implemented a number of different techniques for variance management at Fletcher Allen Health ...
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Critical DNA damaging pathways in tumorigenesis

Seminars in Cancer Biology, 2022
The acquisition of DNA damage is an early driving event in tumorigenesis. Premalignant lesions show activated DNA damage responses and inactivation of DNA damage checkpoints promotes malignant transformation. However, DNA damage is also a targetable vulnerability in cancer cells.
Jake A. Kloeber, Zhenkun Lou
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Critical Pathways in Home Healthcare

JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 1992
Administrators and directors of home health agencies are increasingly accountable for the productive use of resources and quality patient outcomes. However, few reliable ways exist to measure and influence these components. The author proposes the use of the critical pathway typically used in acute care case management as an efficient tool to guide ...
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Empyema: Development of a Critical Pathway

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2002
Over the past 20 years at the authors' institution, the management of empyema has evolved. The authors recently have developed a critical pathway in an effort to facilitate diagnosis, guide therapy, and reduce cost. Currently, the average length of stay using this pathway is 4 to 5 days with decreased cost compared to the historic length of stay and a ...
Christine, Finck, Charles, Wagner, Richard, Jackson, Sam, Smith   +3 more
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Critical pathways.

Journal of healthcare resource management, 1997
A critical Pathway (CP) is a clinical management tool that helps medical care providers coordinate the delivery of patient care for a particular case type or condition. As a guide to usual treatment patterns, a CP gives a view of the "big picture." The CP usually recommends a total treatment regimen.
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Critical Pathways and Mother-Baby Coupling

Nursing Management (Springhouse), 1996
Mother-baby couplet care has been utilized for more than 10 years. Both staff and patients find use of critical pathways in this managed care system to be very effective and efficient.
D, Driscoll, C, Caico
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Expanding the Use of Critical Pathways in Critical Care

Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 1994
Critical pathways are known to decrease the patient's length of stay while simultaneously using resources effectively and efficiently. Several additional functions of critical pathways exist: pathways are used as tools for teaching; to predict and prevent complications; streamline charting; and anticipate staffing needs.
E L, Redick, A R, Stroud, T B, Kurack
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20 Years of Critical Pathways

Critical Pathways in Cardiology: A Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2022
Christopher P, Cannon, Liuba, Fusco
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Critical Pathways

Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, 1996
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