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Measuring clinical pathway adherence.
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PMID:  20696277     Owner:  NLM     Status:  In-Process    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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. The resulting measurements are of limited value in view of the pathways actually followed by individual patients. We develop and test dynamic programming formulations for adherence measurement in clinical pathways--based on partially ordered data in medical records and pathway definitions. With these new methods at hand, we analyze clinical pathway adherence at the Cardiovascular Center of Maastricht University Medical Center.
Authors:
Joris van de Klundert; Pascal Gorissen; Stef Zeemering
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article     Date:  2010-08-07
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of biomedical informatics     Volume:  43     ISSN:  1532-0480     ISO Abbreviation:  J Biomed Inform     Publication Date:  2010 Dec 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2010-11-24     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  100970413     Medline TA:  J Biomed Inform     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  861-72     Citation Subset:  IM    
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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Institute of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. vandeklundert@bmg.eur.nl
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