Care planning as a strategy to manage variation in practice: from care plan to integrated person-based record.
This article begins with a summary of the trend toward a person-based health record, and the need to integrate data from a variety of sources to achieve this. A project is described that demonstrated problems with the structure of nursing care plans. These problems affected the ability to integrate care plan data into a clinical database capable of analysis to link control of process with clinical outcome. A second project [...]
Author(s): Hoy, J D, Hyslop, A Q
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1995.96010395