A clinical pathway represents sequencing and timing of interventions by clinicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals for a particular clinical presentation. It is designed to minimize delays and resource utilizations and to maximize the quality of tertiary care. A pathway is used to monitor and control patient?s progress that is measured according to standard process and clinical outcomes. We conducted a retrospective chart study and used the Bayesian belief network (BBN) to model a pathway for radical prostatectomy that was developed at The Ottawa Hospital — Civic Campus, and to predict the patient?s length of stay (LOS) given the deviations from pre-determined course of action.
Citation:
Wojtek Michalowski, Szymon Wilk, Anthony Thijssen, Mingmei Li, "Bayesian Belief Network Model of the Radical Prostatectomy Pathway," hicss, vol. 5, pp.92a, Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06) Track 5, 2006