Online Treatment Compliance Checking for Clinical Pathways

Zhengxing Huang, Yurong Bao, Wei Dong, Xudong Lu, Huilong Duan
2014 Journal of medical systems  
Compliance checking for clinical pathways (CPs) is getting increasing attention in health-care organizations due to stricter requirements for cost control and treatment excellence. Many compliance measures have been proposed for treatment behavior inspection in CPs. However, most of them look at aggregated data seen from an external perspective, e.g. length of stay, cost, infection rate, etc., which may provide only a posterior impression of the overall conformance with the established CPs such
more » ... that in-depth and in near real time checking on the compliance of the essential/critical treatment behaviors of CPs is limited. To provide clinicians real time insights into violations of the established This article is part of the Topical Collection on Systems-Level Quality Improvement Zhengxing Huang and Yurong Bao contributed equally to this work
doi:10.1007/s10916-014-0123-0 pmid:25149871 fatcat:o3y5e7uunvdcpmakwjiknz67f4