title: Case management and clinical pathways for the pediatric orthopaedic patient.
abstract: Clinical pathways are for predictable, routine, high volume kinds of patients and procedures. Case management is a strategy that is for unpredictable, complex, high cost/high risk kinds of patients.
authors.affiliation: Shriners Hospital, Greenville, South Carolina, USA.
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kyzer
mesh_terms: D019090:Case Management / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006776:Hospitals, Pediatric; D006801:Humans; D016530:Orthopedic Nursing; D010371:Pediatric Nursing