What is a clinical pathway? Refinement of an operational definition to identify clinical pathway studies for a Cochrane systematic review

BMC Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Lawal, Adegboyega K ^a   Rotter, Thomas ^a   Kinsman, Leigh ^b   Machotta, Andreas ^c   Ronellenfitsch, Ulrich ^d   Scott, Shannon D ^e   Goodridge, Donna ^f   Plishka, Christopher ^a   Groot, Gary ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical pathways; Quality health improvement; Systematic reviews

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; CHECKLIST; CONSENSUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SYNTHESIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WRITING; CLINICAL PATHWAY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CRITICAL PATHWAYS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84978022576     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-016-0580-z     Document Type: Article

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