Home respiratory rehabilitation: a purposes literature review focusing on the clinical pathway management

Abstract

Clinical Care pathways, also known as critical pathways, integrated care pathways, case management plans, clinical care pathways or care maps, are used to systematically plan and follow up a patient focused care program. Clinical pathways are used all over the world and so for respiratory rehabilitation pathways (RR) and the importance of knowledge and learning Evidence Based Practice (EBP) is well known and mandatory. However, the EBP acquisitions of the home RR model and the knowledge of Clinical Care Pathways (PCA) are poorly defined.