Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care

Olive, Mark; Lashwood, Alison; Solomonides, Tony

Abstract

This is one of a series of papers arising in part out of the SHARE (Supporting and structuring Healthgrid Activities and Research in Europe) project; in previous work, we have examined the use of integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form of medical guideline including the explicit recording of any deviation, or ‘variance’, for research purposes. In particular, we explored how feeding the results of the analysis of variance into the development of a pathway might be an effective way of capturing ‘evidence from practice’.
Building on this concept, in our principal case study we propose an information system for extracting data from ICPs using ontologies and a method for inferring ICPs from other patient records, combining these with data collected for retrospective and prospective studies in preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and screening (PGS) for assisted reproduction. We also look at the problem of selecting alternatives when drug interactions occur when multiple pathways are used in parallel.

Citation

Olive, M., Lashwood, A., & Solomonides, T. (2011). Care pathway records with ontologies: Potential uses in medical research and health care. International Journal of Care Pathways, 15(1), 15-17. https://doi.org/10.1258/jicp.2010.010m21

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Conference Name: Care Pathways 2010
• Start Date: Jun 23, 2010
• End Date: Jun 24, 2010
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 4, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 13, 2016
• Journal: International Journal of Care Pathways
• Print ISSN: 2040-4026
• Electronic ISSN: 2040-4034
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-17
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1258/jicp.2010.010m21
• Keywords: care pathways, clinical pathways, critical pathways
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/964957
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/jicp.2010.010m21
• Related Public URLs: http://www.e-p-a.org/downloads/carepathways2010.pdf
• Additional Information: Additional Information : This is the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in International Journal of Care Pathways. The definitive version, detailed above, is available online at www.rsmjournals.com.
• Contract Date: Sep 13, 2016