An approach to using care pathway records for research.
Previously, we have examined the use of integrated care pathways, a fine-grained form of medical guideline including the explicit recording of any deviation, or 'variance', for research purposes. Feeding the results of the analysis of variance into the development of a pathway could be an effective way of capturing evidence from practice. Building on this concept, in our principal case study we propose a system for extracting data from integrated care pathways (ICPs) using ontologies and a method for inferring ICPs from other patient records, combining these with data collected for retrospective and prospective studies in preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for assisted reproduction.
Olive
Mark
M
Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Mark2.Olive@uwe.ac.uk
Lashwood
Alison
A
Solomonides
Tony
T
D035843:Biomedical Research; D019091:Critical Pathways; D005820:Genetic Testing; D006801:Humans; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted; D013222:State Medicine; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom