A dynamic clinical pathway for the treatment of patients with early breast cancer is a tool for better cancer care: implementation and prospective analysis between 2002-2010.

Background: Due to increasing the complexity of breast cancer treatment it is of paramount importance to develop structured care in order to avoid a chaotic and non-consistent management of patients. Clinical pathways, a result of the adaptation of the documents used in industrial quality management namely the Standard Operating Procedures, can be used to improve efficiency and quality of care. They also aim to re-centre the focus on the patient's overall journey, rather than the contribution of each specialty or caring function independently.

CORDIET - Healthcare: Extracting knowledge from electronic patient record data.

In this paper we propose the software system CORDIET-Healthcare which we are currently developing in collaboration with the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Moscow Higher School of Economics and the GZA-hospital group located in Antwerp. The main aim of this system is to offer healthcare management staff a user-friendly and powerful data analysis environment. Using state of the art techniques from computer science and mathematics we show how CORDIET-Healthcare can be used to gain insight in existing care processes and reveal actionable knowledge which can be used to improve the current way of working.

Improving quality of electronic data registration for clinical pathways at the regional hospital Sint Augustinus Antwerp (Flanders-Belgium): A case study.

The hospital management wishes to guarantee a high quality of care by improving processes. Th improvement is based upon performance measurements documented by care providers using an order communication, planning and result reporting system. The nursing process was integrated in clinical pathways.