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A clinical pathway is a multidisciplinary management tool based on evidence-based practice for a specific group of patients with a predictable clinical course, in which the different tasks (interventions) by the professionals involved in the patient care are defined, optimized and sequenced either by hour (ED), day (acute care) or visit (homecare).
Track nurses' contribution to patient care and care outcomes. Provide standardized concepts (data/elements) for clinical pathways and decision support. Enable evidence-based practice protocols to process and analyze patient care data and to evaluate the effects of nursing care on patient outcomes. Nursing Education Applications:
Health care quality is the degree to which health care services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. [2] Quality of care plays an important role in describing the iron triangle of health care relationships between quality, cost, and accessibility of health care within a community. [3]
To support methods such as care pathways and care bundles. Care pathways involve a team effort in order to come to a consensus with regards to standards of care and expected outcomes while care bundles are related to best practice with regards to care given for a specific disease. [1] To record care. [1] To measure care. [1]
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care , to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital setting.
In the United Kingdom, end-of-life care pathways are based on the Liverpool Care Pathway. Originally developed to provide evidence based care to dying cancer patients, this pathway has been adapted and used for a variety of chronic conditions at clinics in the UK and internationally. [ 45 ]
The NCCMH was commissioned by NHS England and NICE to develop mental health care pathways to support the delivery of the ambitions set out in The Five Year Forward View for Mental Health. [7] The pathways set out the evidence base and recommendations for providing timely, equal access and effective treatment and care.
A separate pathway should be established for the treatment of pre-pubertal treatment, who are ideally to be treated as early as possible. [121] Changing how the NHS provides care: The development of a regional network of centres, and continuity of care for 17–25 year olds. [122] [46]