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Clinical practice guidelines in oncology provide an evidence-based roadmap for most cancer care delivery but often lack directions for specific patient factors and disease conditions. Clinical pathways serve as a real-time clinical decision support system to translate guidelines to clinical practice. Pathways allow for the creation of a standardized, multidimensional roadmap for the continuum of care that can support clinical decision-making, maintain optimal outcomes, and limit unnecessary variation in cancer care. Here we describe the process to develop and implement clinical pathways in the electronic health record. This process includes building the appropriate foundation for a clinical pathways team with supports in the institutional ecosystem, creating visual representations of care paths, formalizing the pathway approval process, and translating clinical pathways into an electronic health record-integrated clinical decision support tool.
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Hooda, S.M., Fields, K.K. (2021). Transitioning Clinical Practice Guidelines into the Electronic Health Record through Clinical Pathways. In: Markowitz, J. (eds) Translational Bioinformatics for Therapeutic Development. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2194. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0849-4_4
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