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McLachlan, S, Kyrimi, E, Dube, K, Hitman, G, Simmonds, J and Fenton, N (2020) Towards standardisation of evidence-based clinical care process specifications. Health Informatics Journal, 26 (4). pp. 2512-2537. ISSN 1460-4582
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Abstract
There is a strong push towards standardisation of treatment approaches, care processes and documentation of clinical practice. However, confusion persists regarding terminology and description of many clinical care process specifications which this research seeks to resolve by developing a taxonomic characterisation of clinical care process specifications. Literature on clinical care process specifications was analysed, creating the starting point for identifying common characteristics and how each is constructed and used in the clinical setting. A taxonomy for clinical care process specifications is presented. The De Bleser approach to limited clinical care process specifications characterisation was extended and each clinical care process specification is successfully characterised in terms of purpose, core elements and relationship to the other clinical care process specification types. A case study on the diagnosis and treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in the United Kingdom was used to evaluate the taxonomy and demonstrate how the characterisation framework applies. Standardising clinical care process specifications ensures that the format and content are consistent with expectations, can be read more quickly and high-quality information can be recorded about the patient. Standardisation also enables computer interpretability, which is important in integrating Learning Health Systems into the modern clinical environment. The approach presented allows terminologies for clinical care process specifications that were widely used interchangeably to be easily distinguished, thus, eliminating the existing confusion.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0806 Information Systems, 0807 Library and Information Studies |
| Subjects: | K Law > K Law (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Divisions: | Law |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
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| Date Deposited: | 07 Feb 2022 11:56 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Feb 2022 12:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1177/1460458220906069 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/16240 |
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