Better organized care via care pathways: A multicenter study

Deborah Seys, Luk Bruyneel, Svin Deneckere, Seval Kul, Liz Van der Veken, Ruben van Zelm, Walter Sermeus, Massimiliano Panella and Kris Vanhaecht

PLOS ONE, 2017, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-11

Abstract: An increased need for efficiency and effectiveness in today’s healthcare system urges professionals to improve the organization of care. Care pathways are an important tool to achieve this. The overall aim of this study was to analyze if care pathways lead to better organization of care processes. For this, the Care Process Self-Evaluation tool (CPSET) was used to evaluate how healthcare professionals perceive the organization of care processes. Based on information from 2692 health care professionals gathered between November 2007 and October 2011 we audited 261 care processes in 108 organizations. Multilevel analysis was used to compare care processes without and with care pathways and analyze if care pathways led to better organization of care processes. A significant difference between care processes with and without care pathways was found. A care pathway in use led to significant better scores on the overall CPSET scale (p

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