Care+Pathway


 * Care Pathway **




 * Description **

Care Pathways is a term that is interchangeable with clinical pathways, critical pathways, care maps or anticipated recovery pathways.(Care pathway) This is a tool used by healthcare organizations to create a care plan with influences from evidence based practices based on similar patients, and similar time consistencies.

Included in the care pathways are:

- Goals and key elements based on evidence based practices, patient specific goals and patient information. - Communication plan involving the care team as well as the patient and family members. - The care process and the roles and responsibilities of team members and different aspects needed of each team member and the continuing care through the family. - Documentation of data and resources, monitoring of patient and evaluation of the process and progress of the patient to determine outcomes.

The Standards used to define care pathways and ensure they are what's best for the patient meet these standards(Care pathway):

- Multidisciplinary <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Single Documentation <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Use exception reporting <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Variance analysis <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Patient/user involvement <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Monitoring of utilization <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Cross boundaries <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Standard Format <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Outcome oriented <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Built in audit <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">- <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Evidence based


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Applications **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Care pathways are used to help define a routine for patients, healthcare organizations and families to proceed with care for a patient. This includes all of the parties listed above to have specific responsibilities and duties to help the patient receive the best quality of care and to create the best outcome in a defined period of time. This relates to healthcare informatics by providing pathways healthcare organizations use with patients to provide care.




 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Web resources **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Each healthcare organization has different Care pathway standards and they are patient specific to provide the best quality of care. Some examples of Care Pathways can be seen in the links below.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Related terminology **

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Clinical pathway <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Care Map <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Critical pathway <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5;">Anticipated recovery pathway


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Citations/References **

> <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">"Care Pathways." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">Royal College of Nursing //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">. N.p., 2014. Web. 24 Oct. 2014. <http://www.rcn.org.uk/development/practice/perioperative_fasting/good_practice/service_improvement_tools/care_pathways>. > <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">"Scotland's National Approach to Improving Mental Health Services." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">International Journal of Care Coordination //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">. Sage Journals, n.d. Web. 24 Oct. 2014. <http://icp.sagepub.com/content/14/2/57/F3.expansion>. >
 * <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">The Care Pathway Concept: Concepts and Theories: An Introduction | Schrijvers | International Journal of Integrated Care." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">The Care Pathway Concept: Concepts and Theories: An Introduction | Schrijvers | International Journal of Integrated Care //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">. N.p., 18 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Oct. 2014. <http://www.ijic.org/index.php/ijic/article/view/812/1894>.
 * <span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">"Finding Your Way With An Integrated Care Pathway." //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">Life with HIV & Hepatitis //<span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; font-family: 'Open Sans','Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13.63636302948px;">. Baseline, 5 July 2013. Web. 24 Oct. 2014. <http://www.baseline-hiv.co.uk/hiv-articles/2013/7/5/finding-your-way-with-an-integrated-care-pathway>.