Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies

Olive, Mark; Lashwood, Alison; Solomonides, Tony

Abstract

Integrated care pathways (ICPs), a fine-grained form of medical guideline including the explicit recording of any deviation, or ‘variance’, could serve as a rich source of data for research. Not only do they incorporate a wealth of operational knowledge, but feeding the results of the analysis of variance into the development of a pathway could be an effective way of capturing evidence from practice. In our principal case study we propose a system for extracting data from care pathways with the aid of 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) for assisted reproduction.

Citation

Olive, M., Lashwood, A., & Solomonides, T. (2010, October). Care pathway records and variance data: enabling research through the use of ontologies. Paper presented at 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010), Perth, Australia

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS 2010)
• Conference Location: Perth, Australia
• Start Date: Oct 12, 2010
• End Date: Oct 15, 2010
• Publication Date: Oct 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Nov 4, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 15, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Keywords: care pathways, guidelines, knowledge management, ontologies
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/974676
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