Health care outcomes : collaborative, path-based approaches

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Overview

Evolution of outcomes management

Patient care outcomes: a league of their own

Future of collaborative path-based practice

Developing better critical paths in health care: combining "best practice" and the quantitative approach

Respiratory

Community-acquired pneumonia outcome study: the evolution of a clinical pathway

Pneumonia careMAP®: improving the process to enhance outcomes

Collaborative efforts in managing patient outcomes: the pulmonary resection pathway

Neonatal/pediatrics

Enhancing outcomes in pediatrics: the development and implementation of a pneumonia protocol

Neonatal ECMO: a pathway to care

Starting small: outcomes management design for the extremely low-birth weight infant

Measuring outcomes for spleen and liver trauma in children

Bronchiolitis: improving outcomes in the pediatric population

Positive outcomes from a pediatric appendicitis pathway

General surgery

Managing outcomes for breast procedures

Radical prostatectomy: process and outcomes

Developing an outpatient surgery clinical path for laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Getting a head start: improving outcomes with a craniotomy for tumor care pathway

Clinical paths for prostatectomy: linking outcomes to practice through continuous quality improvement

Achieving outcomes through interdisciplinary path-based care for burn patients

Orthopaedics

Clinical pathway for calcaneal fracture: process and outcomes

Improving the outcomes of cervical spinal cord injury: developing a clinical pathway model

Case managing to maximize quality and cost outcomes: a total hip replacement pathway

Outcomes-based practice: a lumbar laminectomy model

Total joint replacement outcome improvement

Total knee arthroplasty: a collaborative project in quality improvement and cost reduction

Geriatric

Pathways for managing the frail older adult across the continuum

Achieving quality and fiscal outcomes for older adults with depression