Monitoring adherence to evidence-based practices: a method to utilize HL7 messages from hospital information systems.
Clinical pathways are evidence-based recommendations for treating a diagnosis. Although implementations of clinical pathways have reduced medical errors, lowered costs, and improved patient outcomes, monitoring whether a patient is following the intended pathway is problematic. Implementing a variance reporting program is impeded by the lack of a reliable source of electronic data and automatic retrieval methods.
Author(s): Konrad, R, Tulu, B, Lawley, M
DOI: 10.4338/ACI-2012-06-RA-0026