Have We Drawn the Wrong Conclusions About the Value of Care Pathways? Is a Cochrane Review Appropriate?

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 28-42

  Vanhaecht, Kris ^a   Ovretveit, John ^b   Elliott, Martin J ^c   Sermeus, Walter ^a   Ellershaw, John ^d   Panella, Massimiliano ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

care process; clinical pathway; Cochrane review; complex intervention; critical pathway

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857083906     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278711408293     Document Type: Review

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