Ihave been traveling the country for 6 months, participating in different forums on improving
quality of care for patients with chronic diseases. I would like to share my thoughts on the …

Clinical paths have demonstrated their value in support of patient care management
throughout the last 25 years of use. With over 25 years of experience in using clinical paths …

203 tions that may plague patients or the priorities they themselves assign to their health
conditions. Multimorbidity is the rule, not the exception, and with age this becomes more …

Clinical pathways are our most valuable and performant tool in managing health-care
processes. Sloppiness and inaccuracy, in both definition and implementation, threaten to …

Clinical pathways are both a case management and a clinical audit tool. They allow a
multidisciplinary team to co-ordinate care by setting out all the activities involved in the care …

Family medicine physicians manage the highest complexity of conditions in their practices. 1
Family physicians must actively stay up to date on new advances and recent evidence; care …

To learn how to improve a health system—or come up with a more efficient, effective, and
reliable way to provide the safest, highest-quality care possible—ask a patient. An estimated …

We undertook a survey of clinical pathways across the 25 European Union countries.
Fiftyone questionnaires were completed by largely self-selected experts from 17 countries …

The presumed stellar characteristics of clinical pathways have grown in unearthly
proportions to the extent that our expectations of pathway utilization are unrealistic and …

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