Clinical Caremap Development: How Can Caremaps Standardise Care When They Are Not Standardised?

Scott McLachlan, Evangelia Kyrimi, Kudakwashe Dube, Norman Fenton

2019

Abstract

Caremaps were developed to standardise care. They have evolved from text-based descriptions to flow-based diagrams. Standardising care is seen to improve patient safety and outcomes, and to reduce the costs of providing healthcare services, but contemporary caremaps are not standardised. This research investigates contemporary caremaps and proposes a standardised model for caremap content, structure and development. The proposed model is evaluated through two case studies to create caremaps for; 1) obstetric care during labour and birth, and; 2) management and for women with gestational diabetes mellitus, finding that it is an effective method for creating standardise caremaps.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

McLachlan S., Kyrimi E., Dube K. and Fenton N. (2019). Clinical Caremap Development: How Can Caremaps Standardise Care When They Are Not Standardised?. In Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF; ISBN 978-989-758-353-7, SciTePress, pages 123-134. DOI: 10.5220/0007522601230134

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf19,
author={Scott McLachlan and Evangelia Kyrimi and Kudakwashe Dube and Norman Fenton},
title={Clinical Caremap Development: How Can Caremaps Standardise Care When They Are Not Standardised?},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF},
year={2019},
pages={123-134},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007522601230134},
isbn={978-989-758-353-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2019) - Volume 5: HEALTHINF
TI - Clinical Caremap Development: How Can Caremaps Standardise Care When They Are Not Standardised?
SN - 978-989-758-353-7
AU - McLachlan S.
AU - Kyrimi E.
AU - Dube K.
AU - Fenton N.
PY - 2019
SP - 123
EP - 134
DO - 10.5220/0007522601230134
PB - SciTePress