Computerisation of Clinical Pathways

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Author(s): Jasmine Tehrani (University of Reading, UK)
Copyright: 2017
Pages: 25
Source title: Healthcare Ethics and Training: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-2237-9.ch050

Keywords: Medical Education / Medical Ethics / Medical Information Science Reference / Medicine & Healthcare

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Abstract

Patient safety incidents are becoming more common in medical situations. The challenge of achieving significant improvements in patient safety is one of the key tasks facing healthcare at the start of the 21st century. Clinical pathways and clinical guidelines provide a measure of standardisation to help reduce medical error, but are often manually created and also prone to human error. This chapter explores the error issues regarding clinical pathways. It presents a method for generating clinical pathways from a semiotic perspective that can addresses social and informal/safety factors which conspire to influence the outcome of patient interaction and safety.

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