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Planning care
Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
intended outcome
desired achievement of a care process addressing health needs

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

intended outcome

desired achievement of a care process addressing health needs

EXAMPLE 1 To increase the survival of a subject of care with breast cancer in a breast cancer screening programme.

EXAMPLE 2 To reduce a subject of care risk of morbidity and mortality from tobacco-related diseases in a smoking cessation programme.

EXAMPLE 3 To decrease a subject of care risk of secondary effects to diabetes

Note 1 to entry: An intended outcome can be expressed as one or several target conditions to be reached within a specified date and time.

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **intended outcome**
Specialization of			Generalization of
health matter

Table 2. Associations of **intended outcome**
Association from		Association name		Association to
1..*	intended outcome	addresses		0..*	health need
1..*	care goal	contributes to achievement of		0..*	intended outcome
1..*	target condition	represents		1..*	intended outcome

intended outcomeUML Representation — Figure 1. intended outcome (UML Representation)