Using PERT/CPM (Program Evaluation and Review Technique/Critical Path Method) to design and improve clinical processes

Recent changes in health care have focused attention on new tools for planning and managing clinical processes. The use of one tool in particular, clinical pathways, has increased dramatically. Pathways employ a concept long used in other industries: the explicit design and documentation of a proces...

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Published inQuality management in health care Vol. 3; no. 2; p. 1
Main Authors Luttman, R J, Laffel, G L, Pearson, S D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 1995
Subjects
Analysis of Variance
Boston
Clinical Protocols
Forms and Records Control
Hospital Information Systems
Methods
Models, Statistical
Planning Techniques
Process Assessment (Health Care) - organization & administration
Systems Integration
Time and Motion Studies
Boston
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Summary:Recent changes in health care have focused attention on new tools for planning and managing clinical processes. The use of one tool in particular, clinical pathways, has increased dramatically. Pathways employ a concept long used in other industries: the explicit design and documentation of a process. However, the most common tools used in other industries to perform process design, the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) and the Critical Path Method (CPM), have not migrated to health care. This article presents a methodology for incorporating PERT/CPM into the design and management of clinical processes.
ISSN:1063-8628
DOI:10.1097/00019514-199503020-00004