{"title":"Effectiveness of a pneumonia clinical pathway: quality and financial outcomes.","authors":"K F Phillips, H C Crain","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In today's health care environment, it is imperative to evaluate planned changes within a health care system. We report the outcomes of a study on the effectiveness of a pneumonia clinical pathway. Important elements of effectiveness studies are discussed and used in presenting study findings. These findings are a preliminary demonstration that clinical pathways can improve patient and process outcomes. Their relation to financial outcomes is less clear.</p>","PeriodicalId":79526,"journal":{"name":"Outcomes management for nursing practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1998-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Outcomes management for nursing practice","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In today's health care environment, it is imperative to evaluate planned changes within a health care system. We report the outcomes of a study on the effectiveness of a pneumonia clinical pathway. Important elements of effectiveness studies are discussed and used in presenting study findings. These findings are a preliminary demonstration that clinical pathways can improve patient and process outcomes. Their relation to financial outcomes is less clear.