ORAHS2024
Abstract Submission

135. Integrated care planning of multi-service inter-organisation care pathways

Contributed abstract in session FA-3: Integrated Planning in Healthcare /2, stream Regular talks.

Friday, 9:20-10:30
Room: Room S2

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Sean Manzi
Dartington Service Design Lab

Abstract

Healthcare provision often involves multiple services provided by more than one organisation particularly for complex and long term conditions. The different services that a patient interacts with and the care they receive is the care pathway. Such pathways can occur organically or pre-planned. Pre-planned care pathways can increase the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare provision through better continuity and use of resources.
The pre-planning of complex care pathways can be informed by understanding how patients organically access services and are referred through the system. This knowledge can provide a starting point from which to plan and optimise the care pathway. Patient level referral data provides the chronological narrative of a patients interaction with different health service. Integrated datasets from the various organisations/providers of these services provide a more complete picture of the patient journey.
Network analysis provides an approach for organising, analysing and visualising these large and complex datasets. It also enables the probabilistic simulation of the most likely treatment pathways. This approach has been trialled in a case study of care for people with eating disorders in Devon with the analysis presented in an online interactive analysis explorer.

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Status: accepted

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