A clinical pathway for episcleral brachytherapy

Autor: C Andres‐Rodriguez, R Esteban‐Casado, Jm De Frutos‐Baraja, F Lopez‐Lara‐Martin, Ma Ceballos‐Garcia, C. García-Álvarez, A Giraldo-Argüello, Ma Saornil‐Alvarez, Fj De Luis‐Perez
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Acta Ophthalmologica. 86
ISSN: 1755-375X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.4466.x
Popis: Purpose To develop the clinical pathway of episcleral brachytherapy as developed in our center. Methods 1 .- Recruitment multidisciplinary team 2 .- A critical review of clinical practice guidelines applicable 3 .- Combining the expertise of professionals with revisions to guidelines previously outlined and the rest of literature applicable 4 .- design of the clinical pathway and indicators for evaluation Results The clinical pathway designed consists of 3 tables: time from diagnosis until they have all the data for treatment, during treatment and variances on the pathway and the establishment of indicators to assess the degree of compliance with the pathway i. - Number of patients included in the pathway in relation to that should have been included ii .- Number of patients with variances from the clinical pathway iii .- Total number of variances iv .- Survey of patients v. - Survey of professionals Conclusion The establishment of the delimitation of functions through a clinical pathway has served the research team, who is also the team that develops clinical treatments in our center, to narrow the deadlines for action of each specialty and the order in which they must be made. The research team is inclined to clinical pathways of more immediate usefulness for clinical practice the existence of guides in the scientific literature. An improvement that could be done would be the computerization of the pathway. Acknowledgments: This work has been financed partly by a grant of the Junta de Castilla y Leon (Order SAN/1829/2007 of November 13, BOCYL of November 15, 2007)
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