Reducing clinical variations with clinical pathways: do pathways work?
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Reducing clinical variations with clinical pathways: do pathways work?
OBJECTIVE To test clinical pathways in a variety of Italian health care organizations in 2000-2002 to measure performance in decreasing process and outcome variations. DESIGN Creation of indicators, specific for each clinical pathway, to measure variations in the care processes and outcomes. Pre- and post-analysis model to evaluate the possible effect of the clinical pathways on each indicato...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzg057