La terminología ATIC como herramienta de soporte a la gestión

Abstract

This article is intended to continue the one published in the previous journal issue (“ATIC Terminology: Considerations of use in patient care”). Based on the same theoretical-conceptual framework, and in the healthcare setting, the first article was targeted to placing ATIC from the perspective of patient care, and the objective of this second article is to state the considerations and review the evidence for the use of the ATIC terminology as a support tool for the healthcare and administrative management of patient care. To this aim, there has been an adaptation of the mixed, narrative, adjacent method, where the outcomes of study review are presented sequentially, together with their essential considerations. ATIC offers an adequate support for building data models and standards for patient care provision and management. It also guarantees semantic interoperability, by implementing mapping with those of other controlled vocabularies. It offers an adequate conceptual coverage, and minimizes the underuse effect, with a noticeable level of satisfaction by users. At the same time, it suggests new data models, and orientates emerging formulas for measuring the intensity and complexity of patient care. The evidence supporting and demonstrating the use of ATIC as support tool for patient care management seems to support the scenario that ATIC offers a range of new tools, even though the method used in this article leaves conclusions to be drawn by each reader.