Analysis and evaluation of clinical pathways in china.

To analyze and evaluate the Standard Clinical Pathways (CPs) in China and suggest improvements for future revisions, we reviewed and evaluated the Standard CPs in China based on CP evaluation framework and the standard functions for eCP. We found that Standard CPs in China can basically meet the requirements of evaluation criteria and the standard function for eCPs, but still have problems in recording, editing and statistics. Standard CPs in China are still paper-based designs, and are not applicable for the computer and network environment. Further improvement should be done in the following directions including regulating and standardizing representations of items in the cells of CP checklists, modeling and templating CP checklists, and developing variance codes.