TY - GEN
T1 - Supporting human interaction and human resources coordination in distributed clinical guidelines
AU - Bottrighi, Alessio
AU - Torchio, Mauro
AU - Montani, Stefania
AU - Molino, Gianpaolo
AU - Terenziani, Paolo
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Clinical guidelines (GL) play an important role in medical practice: the one of optimizing the quality of patient care on the basis of the best and most recent evidence based medicine. In order to achieve this goal, the interaction between different actors, who cooperate in the execution of the same GL, is a crucial issue. As a matter of fact, in many cases (e.g. in chronic disease treatment) the GL execution requires that patient treatment is not performed/completed in the hospital, but is continued in different contexts (e.g. at home, or in the general practitioner's ambulatory), under the responsibility of different actors. In this situation, the correct interaction and communication between the actors themselves is critical for the quality of care, and human resources coordination is a key issue to be addressed by the managers of the involved healthcare service. In this paper we describe how computerized GL management can be extended in order to support such needs, and we illustrate our approach by means of a practical case study.
AB - Clinical guidelines (GL) play an important role in medical practice: the one of optimizing the quality of patient care on the basis of the best and most recent evidence based medicine. In order to achieve this goal, the interaction between different actors, who cooperate in the execution of the same GL, is a crucial issue. As a matter of fact, in many cases (e.g. in chronic disease treatment) the GL execution requires that patient treatment is not performed/completed in the hospital, but is continued in different contexts (e.g. at home, or in the general practitioner's ambulatory), under the responsibility of different actors. In this situation, the correct interaction and communication between the actors themselves is critical for the quality of care, and human resources coordination is a key issue to be addressed by the managers of the involved healthcare service. In this paper we describe how computerized GL management can be extended in order to support such needs, and we illustrate our approach by means of a practical case study.
KW - Clinical guidelines
KW - Human interaction and communication
KW - Human resources coordination
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78649503617&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-319
DO - 10.3233/978-1-60750-588-4-319
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78649503617
SN - 9781607505877
T3 - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
SP - 319
EP - 323
BT - Medinfo 2010 - Proceedings of the 13th World Congress on Medical Informatics
PB - IOS Press
T2 - 13th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics, Medinfo 2010
Y2 - 12 September 2010 through 15 September 2010
ER -