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Developing Critical Pathways for the Operating Room
Author(s) -
Wieczorek Patricia
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
aorn journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1878-0369
pISSN - 0001-2092
DOI - 10.1016/s0001-2092(06)63559-x
Subject(s) - critical pathways , health care , medicine , managed care , medical emergency , nursing , care pathway , case management , quality management , patient care , healthcare system , critical care nursing , process management , operations management , business , management system , engineering , political science , law
Case management and managed care systems are emerging in the 1990s as ways to deliver quality, cost‐effective patient care. The essential tool of managed care systems is a critical pathway, which is developed through the collaboration of health care team members. The critical pathway is an abbreviated version of the patient's hospital course according to his or her medical diagnosis or case type and it allows health care team members to continually evaluate the patient's care. It has helped team members at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, identify more effective and cost‐efficient ways to deliver patient care. AORN J 62 (Dec 1995) 925‐929.