Title
Toward a decision support system for the clinical pathways assessment.
Abstract
This paper presents a decision support system to be used in hospital management tasks which is based on the clinical pathways. We propose a very simple graphical modeling language based on a small number of primitive elements through which the medical doctors could introduce a clinical pathway for a specific disease. Three essential aspects related to a clinical pathway can be specified in this language: (1) patient flow; (2) resource utilization; and (3) information interchange. This high-level language is a domain specific modeling language called Healthcare System Specification (HSS), and it is defined as an Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile. A model to model transformation is also proposed in order to obtain, from the pathways HSS specification, a Stochastic Well-formed Net (SWN) model that enables a formal analysis of the modeled system and, if needed, to apply synthesis methods enforcing specified requirements. The transformation is based on the application of local rules. The clinical pathway of hip fracture from the "Lozano Blesa" University hospital in Zaragoza is taken as an example.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1007/s10626-019-00279-9
Discrete Event Dynamic Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Healthcare systems, Clinical pathways, Unified modeling language, Petri nets
Mathematical optimization,Petri net,Unified Modeling Language,Decision support system,Healthcare system,Management science,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
29
1
0924-6703
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernardi, S.1403.85
Cristian Mahulea216119.50
Jorge Albareda301.01