Critical Pathways - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Putting it altogether: improving performance in heart failure outcomes, part 2.

30 Aug 2009 As systems evolve over time, their natural tendency is to become increasingly more complex. Studies in the field of complex systems have generated new perspectives on management in social organizations such as hospitals. Much of this research ... Read more...

The implementation of an end-of-life integrated care pathway in a Chinese population.

30 Jul 2009 The integrated care pathway is used in end-of-life care to improve quality of care; the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) has been used in Europe and North America. Tuen Mun Hospital is a regional hospital in Hong Kong, China. The End-of-life Care ... Read more...

Software-assisted spine registered nurse care coordination and patient triage--one organization's approach.

30 Jul 2009 Back disorders encompass a spectrum of conditions, from those of acute onset and short duration to lifelong disorders. The use of a traditional spine center model of patient flow, in which the patient is scheduled the first available appointment ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Critical Pathways - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Putting it altogether: improving performance in heart failure outcomes, part 2. 30 Aug 2009
• The implementation of an end-of-life integrated care pathway in a Chinese population. 30 Jul 2009
• Software-assisted spine registered nurse care coordination and patient triage--one organization's approach. 30 Jul 2009
• Standardize to excellence: improving the quality and safety of care with clinical pathways. 30 Jul 2009
• Playing a well-tested long game. 23 Jul 2009
• Making cars and making health care: a critical review. 4 Jul 2009
• Effect of a pathway bundle on length of stay. 29 Jun 2009
• Quicker cancer care: reshaping patient pathways. 29 Jun 2009
• Sepsis bundles: time for a nursing initiative? 29 Jun 2009
• 23-hour-stay laparoscopic colectomy. 29 Jun 2009
• [Evidence-based and consented pathways for patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD)] 14 Jun 2009
• Evaluating the patient journey approach to ensure health care is centred on patients. 30 May 2009
• Clinical pathways: the Ottawa Hospital experience. 29 Apr 2009
• Continuity of care in ambulatory surgery critical pathways: the patients' perceptions. 29 Apr 2009
• Nurses' role in helping to rehabilitate patients to return to health after critical illness. 29 Apr 2009
• A mapping of the evidence on integrated long term condition services. 29 Apr 2009
• Reducing cycle times in pediatric emergency medicine. 29 Apr 2009
• Exploring NICE guidance on long-term sickness and incapacity for work. 29 Apr 2009
• Relevance of stroke code, stroke unit and stroke networks in organization of acute stroke care--the Madrid acute stroke care program. Apr 2009
• The beginning of the end (of life care strategy). 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Critical Pathways'

Definition: Schedules of medical and nursing procedures, including diagnostic tests, medications, and consultations designed to effect an efficient, coordinated program of treatment. (From Mosby's Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary, 4th ed)

Descriptor UI: D019091

Alternative terms: Critical Pathways; Critical Pathway; Pathway, Critical; Pathways, Critical; Critical Paths; Critical Path; Path, Critical; Paths, Critical; Clinical Paths; Clinical Path; Path, Clinical; Paths, Clinical; Clinical Pathways; Clinical Pathway; Pathway, Clinical; Pathways, Clinical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.624.625; N04.590.275;

History Note: 96

Technical Notes: schedules in patient care for coordinated treatment