title: An approach to using care pathway records for research.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK. Mark2.Olive@uwe.ac.uk
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olive
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lashwood
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Solomonides
mesh_terms: 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