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Planning care
Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
care pathway
detailed guidance for each stage in the interdisciplinary management of a subject of care

Planning care
Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
- care planning
  care activity management where a care plan is managed
- care goal
  desired achievement of one or more care activities
- intended outcome
  desired achievement of a care process addressing health needs
- care guideline
  set of systematically developed statements based on knowledge to assist the decisions made by care actors about care activities to be performed with regard to specified health issues
- protocol
  customized care guideline
- care pathway
  detailed guidance for each stage in the interdisciplinary management of a subject of care
- care plan
  dynamic, personalized plan including identified needed care activity, health objectives and care goals, relating to one or more specified health needs in a care process
- core care plan
  knowledge providing reusable content addressing one or more specified health issues
- social care plan
  care plan addressing social issues
- clinical care plan
  care plan addressing clinical issues
- integrated care plan
  care plan crossing organizational, professional and contextual borders
- risk
  combination of the probability of occurrence of harm and the severity of that harm
- unintended event
  phenomenon that is not part of the normal course of a process
- adverse event
  unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process
- adverse event management
  set of care activities performed in response to an adverse event

care pathway

detailed guidance for each stage in the interdisciplinary management of a subject of care

Note 1 to entry: The concept care pathway includes subtypes, for example, 'integrated care pathways', 'multidisciplinary pathways of care collaborative care pathways'.

Note 2 to entry: Care pathways are designed to support care administration and care resource management. They provide detailed guidance for each stage in the management of a patient (treatments, interventions, etc.).

Note 3 to entry: Care pathways are knowledge supporting the design of core care plans

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **care pathway**
Specialization of			Generalization of
knowledge

Table 2. Associations of **care pathway**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	care pathway	addresses		1..*	health issue
0..*	care pathway	informs		0..*	core care plan
0..*	care pathway	refers to		0..*	care guideline

care pathwayUML Representation — Figure 1. care pathway (UML Representation)