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Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews
Clinical or care pathways are developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare practitioners, based on clinical evidence, and standardized processes. The evaluation of their framework/content quality is unclear. The aim of this study was to describe which tools and domains are able to critically...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33233824 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228634 |
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author | Latina, Roberto Salomone, Katia D’Angelo, Daniela Coclite, Daniela Castellini, Greta Gianola, Silvia Fauci, Alice Napoletano, Antonello Iacorossi, Laura Iannone, Primiano |
author_facet | Latina, Roberto Salomone, Katia D’Angelo, Daniela Coclite, Daniela Castellini, Greta Gianola, Silvia Fauci, Alice Napoletano, Antonello Iacorossi, Laura Iannone, Primiano |
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description | Clinical or care pathways are developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare practitioners, based on clinical evidence, and standardized processes. The evaluation of their framework/content quality is unclear. The aim of this study was to describe which tools and domains are able to critically evaluate the quality of clinical/care pathways. An overview of systematic reviews was conducted, according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, using Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index, PsychInfo, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library, from 2015 to 2020, and with snowballing methods. The quality of the reviews was assessed with Assessment the Methodology of Systematic Review (AMSTAR-2) and categorized with The Leuven Clinical Pathway Compass for the definition of the five domains: processes, service, clinical, team, and financial. We found nine reviews. Three achieved a high level of quality with AMSTAR-2. The areas classified according to The Leuven Clinical Pathway Compass were: 9.7% team multidisciplinary involvement, 13.2% clinical (morbidity/mortality), 44.3% process (continuity-clinical integration, transitional), 5.6% financial (length of stay), and 27.0% service (patient-/family-centered care). Overall, none of the 300 instruments retrieved could be considered a gold standard mainly because they did not cover all the critical pathway domains outlined by Leuven and Health Technology Assessment. This overview shows important insights for the definition of a multiprinciple framework of core domains for assessing the quality of pathways. The core domains should consider general critical aspects common to all pathways, but it is necessary to define specific domains for specific diseases, fast pathways, and adapting the tool to the cultural and organizational characteristics of the health system of each country. |
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spelling | pubmed-76998892020-11-29 Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews Latina, Roberto Salomone, Katia D’Angelo, Daniela Coclite, Daniela Castellini, Greta Gianola, Silvia Fauci, Alice Napoletano, Antonello Iacorossi, Laura Iannone, Primiano Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Clinical or care pathways are developed by a multidisciplinary team of healthcare practitioners, based on clinical evidence, and standardized processes. The evaluation of their framework/content quality is unclear. The aim of this study was to describe which tools and domains are able to critically evaluate the quality of clinical/care pathways. An overview of systematic reviews was conducted, according to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses, using Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index, PsychInfo, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library, from 2015 to 2020, and with snowballing methods. The quality of the reviews was assessed with Assessment the Methodology of Systematic Review (AMSTAR-2) and categorized with The Leuven Clinical Pathway Compass for the definition of the five domains: processes, service, clinical, team, and financial. We found nine reviews. Three achieved a high level of quality with AMSTAR-2. The areas classified according to The Leuven Clinical Pathway Compass were: 9.7% team multidisciplinary involvement, 13.2% clinical (morbidity/mortality), 44.3% process (continuity-clinical integration, transitional), 5.6% financial (length of stay), and 27.0% service (patient-/family-centered care). Overall, none of the 300 instruments retrieved could be considered a gold standard mainly because they did not cover all the critical pathway domains outlined by Leuven and Health Technology Assessment. This overview shows important insights for the definition of a multiprinciple framework of core domains for assessing the quality of pathways. The core domains should consider general critical aspects common to all pathways, but it is necessary to define specific domains for specific diseases, fast pathways, and adapting the tool to the cultural and organizational characteristics of the health system of each country. MDPI 2020-11-20 2020-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7699889/ /pubmed/33233824 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228634 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Latina, Roberto Salomone, Katia D’Angelo, Daniela Coclite, Daniela Castellini, Greta Gianola, Silvia Fauci, Alice Napoletano, Antonello Iacorossi, Laura Iannone, Primiano Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title | Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title_full | Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title_fullStr | Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title_full_unstemmed | Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title_short | Towards a New System for the Assessment of the Quality in Care Pathways: An Overview of Systematic Reviews |
title_sort | towards a new system for the assessment of the quality in care pathways: an overview of systematic reviews |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7699889/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33233824 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17228634 |
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