Setting standards using integrated care pathways.
An integrated care pathway is a tool that can help to deliver clinical governance objectives if implemented well. Key factors of successful implementation are: effective project management; communication and training; and top-down and bottom-up support for the process.
Johnson
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Venture Training and Consulting Ltd, Chichester, West Sussex.
Dracass
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Vartan
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Summers
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Edington
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D019091:Critical Pathways / Q000592:standards*; D019033:Delivery of Health Care, Integrated / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development / Q000592:standards*