BACKGROUND/AIM: conventional teaching on integrated care pathways (ICP) suggests that they have to be specific both to a particular setting and to a specific diagnosis. We wished to explore the potential for a generic process-based care pathway. STUDY DESIGN: we evaluated three different, disease-specific ICPs in use on a neurological rehabilitation unit to identify prompts common to and differing between them. Variance types and goal outcomes in all three diagnostic groups were compared. RESULTS: 93% of prompts on the care pathway were common to all three diagnostic groups. The prompts that differed were unique to each diagnostic group and provided important guidelines about management. CONCLUSION: in neurorehabilitation, where the process of multidisciplinary care is well defined, it is possible to develop a process-based ICP. Process-based ICPs may not be unique to rehabilitation but may also be relevant to other settings in which patients with differing diagnoses share similar needs.
BACKGROUND/AIM: conventional teaching on integrated care pathways (ICP) suggests that they have to be specific both to a particular setting and to a specific diagnosis. We wished to explore the potential for a generic process-based care pathway. STUDY DESIGN: we evaluated three different, disease-specific ICPs in use on a neurological rehabilitation unit to identify prompts common to and differing between them. Variance types and goal outcomes in all three diagnostic groups were compared. RESULTS: 93% of prompts on the care pathway were common to all three diagnostic groups. The prompts that differed were unique to each diagnostic group and provided important guidelines about management. CONCLUSION: in neurorehabilitation, where the process of multidisciplinary care is well defined, it is possible to develop a process-based ICP. Process-based ICPs may not be unique to rehabilitation but may also be relevant to other settings in which patients with differing diagnoses share similar needs.
Authors: Rosaline C Holliday; Stefan Cano; Jennifer A Freeman; E Diane Playford Journal: J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry Date: 2006-12-18 Impact factor: 10.154
Authors: Luciano Ieraci; Maria Eberg; Katharina Forster; Paula M Murray; Emmett Borg; Steven Habbous; Ali Vahit Esensoy; Erin Kennedy; Claire M B Holloway Journal: Int J Cancer Date: 2022-03-03 Impact factor: 7.316