title: Coordinating initiatives in critical pathways and information systems.
abstract: Health care providers have begun to use critical pathways and order sets to standardize clinical care in order to improve clinical resource management. This article describes ways that critical pathways and order sets can be developed and implemented in a coordinated manner. This approach allows for a process that facilitates automation of critical pathways variance analysis and continuous feedback to clinicians.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Health System, Philadelphia, USA.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Shulkin
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Marris
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D019091:Critical Pathways; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000592:standards*; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007256:Information Systems / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D014481:United States