The article reviews the policy on multidisciplinary cancer care
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The paper describes the concept of clinical pathways and electronic clinical pathways, and highlights the benefits brought about by the introduction of pathways in the hospital processes. The article reviews the use of clinical pathways around the world and highlights considerable fragmentation of terms and definitions. At the end the situation in Slovenia regarding the use of clinical pathways is presented. Even though the introduction of clinical pathways officially began in 2006, they have not really come to life yet to become an integral part of hospital processes.
The methodology presented in this paper is based on concept mapping, which is a technique for representing knowledge in graphs. Its applications are broaderand cover, in addition to presentation of knowledge, the complex organization of systems such as web sites. The paper presents a method for reaching consensus from several organizations of data/web site independently produced by different people. A class of methods was initiated, considering a number of parameters that can be chosen in order to match closely any specificreal-life application. Although the methodology can be fully automated in terms of a suitable computer program, it is meant to be mainly a useful tool for experts in web site organization.
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