title: Clinical pathways: a roadway for providers.
abstract: The steady growth of managed care, combined with advances in both medical and computer science, has begun to transform the way health care providers treat patients. The evolution and rapidly expanding use of clinical pathways has become an important component of the modern health care system.
authors.affiliation: MHA, Lansing, MI, USA. bpeters@lans.mha.org
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D019091:Critical Pathways; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000592:standards; D007857:Leadership; D008824:Michigan; D010820:Physicians