Abstract
Many hospitals are implementing patient care pathways or caremaps to guide patient care throughout the hospital stay. To promote consistency, timeliness, and use of research-based guidelines among our hospital health care providers and to improve patient outcomes, we have developed pathways for use in our Emergency Center. Development of the pathways was a collaborative effort that involved emergency physicians, registered nurses, hospitalists, respiratory therapists, and consulting physicians. For example, cardiologists and catheterization laboratory staff participated in the development of our chest pain pathway and suspected congestive heart failure pathway, pulmonologists and pediatricians assisted with the shortness of breath and suspected pneumonia pathway, and neurologists helped develop the stroke pathway.
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