Objective: To explore the effective strategies of clinical pathway construction in intensive care unit (ICU).
Methods: From January 2016 to July 2018, 1 488 patients were discharged from ICU of Liuzhou Worker's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The pilot project of "postoperative monitoring of heart disease" with simpler route and less variation was selected first, and then the pilot project was promoted to "post-operative monitoring" after its success.