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Planning care
Care plans and the knowledge resources supporting planning care
protocol
customized care guideline

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

protocol

customized care guideline

EXAMPLE 1 A protocol for a heart failure in an emergency department, a protocol for treatment and follow-up of urinary infections in children in a health centre.

Note 1 to entry: A protocol is more precise than a care guideline

Note 2 to entry: Protocols are often presented in a formal manner with respect to the expected behaviours and roles of care actors.

Table 1. Specializations / Generalizations of **protocol**
Specialization of			Generalization of
care guideline

Table 2. Associations of **protocol**
Association from		Association name		Association to
0..*	care plan	implements		0..*	protocol

protocolUML Representation — Figure 1. protocol (UML Representation)