clinical process

care process encompassing all care provider activities and other prescribed care activities that addresses identified or specified health circumstances

Note 1 to entry: A clinical process is a set of interrelated or interacting care activities, which are performed for a subject of care with one or more health circumstances.

Note 2 to entry: The primary input and output to a clinical process is the health state

Note 3 to entry: In a clinical process a subject of care and care professionals interact in all types of care activities.

Note 4 to entry: A clinical process comprises all kinds of care activities, mainly care provider activities, but also self-care activities as prescribed or recommended by care professionals.

Note 5 to entry: The clinical process can be regarded as the key type of process to support continuity of care from the perspective of the subject of care

Note 6 to entry: Clinical processes are the essential, central and most important type of care processes.

Note 7 to entry: A relevant distinction exists between the primary input (the subject of care s initial health state and secondary or ancillary inputs (the resources brought in to perform the clinical process