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Standardising Clinical Caremaps: Model, Method and Graphical Notation for Caremap Specification

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Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019)

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Abstract

Standardising care can improve patient safety and outcomes, and reduce the cost of providing healthcare services. Caremaps were developed to standardise care, but contemporary caremaps are not standardised. Confusion persists in terms of terminology, structure, content and development process. Unlike existing methods in the literature, the approach, model and notation presented in this chapter pays special attention to incorporation of clinical decision points as first-class citizens within the modelling process. The resulting caremap with decision points is evaluated through creation of a caremap for women with gestational diabetes mellitus. The proposed method was found to be an effective way for comprehensively specifying all features of caremaps in a standardised way that can be easily understood by clinicians. This chapter contributes a new standardised method, model and notation for caremap content, structure and development.

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SM, EK and NF acknowledge support from the EPSRC under project EP/P009964/1: PAMBAYESIAN: Patient Managed decision-support using Bayes Networks. KD acknowledges funding and sponsorship for his research sabbatical at QMUL from the School of Fundamental Sciences, Massey University.

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McLachlan, S., Kyrimi, E., Dube, K., Fenton, N. (2020). Standardising Clinical Caremaps: Model, Method and Graphical Notation for Caremap Specification. In: Roque, A., et al. Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies. BIOSTEC 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1211. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46970-2_21

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