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What Is a Care Pathway?

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Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. Development, Operation and Management (Monterey Workshop 2012)

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This paper argues that it is possible to develop useful generic representations of care pathways, drawing on evidence and argument about clinical teams, about the ability of teams to cope with radical uncertainty and about the influence of institutional arrangements on the journeys that patients take through health systems. The arguments are used to identify a mismatch between current practices in the design of large scale digital systems and doctors’ and other health professionals’ needs for information about patients’ risks and outcomes to support their work.

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  1. Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, England

    Justin Keen

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of York, Deramore Lane, YO10 5GH, Heslington, York, UK

    Radu Calinescu

  2. School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, 15213, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    David Garlan

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Keen, J. (2012). What Is a Care Pathway?. In: Calinescu, R., Garlan, D. (eds) Large-Scale Complex IT Systems. Development, Operation and Management. Monterey Workshop 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7539. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34059-8_3

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