My first publication

My first publication is a fact!
Check http://beta.ieis.tue.nl/node/2019 for my literature study.
Check http://is.ieis.tue.nl/staff/pvgorp/research/#mde4dss12 where this literature study is used for.

Reference Concept Map

About a month ago I wrote a post with the title "What is a care pathway?" and gave one definition for a care pathway and its synonyms (clinical-, critical, integrated care pathway, and care map). However, I was not pleased with this because I still didn’t know what was meant by it. So I kept looking for other definitions, and found some more.

Methodology

As mentioned in one of the previous post I will split up the literature review in three parts. The first literature study will be about the various terms that are used to identify a clinical pathway. In this blog post I will mention the newest update after a meeting with my mentor and I will present you the method that I will use during this literature study. Also the research question for the time being is presented together with the involved supervisors for reviewing the literature review.

What is a care pathway?

After the previous post I have been thinking about the used search key to find some literature. I came to the conclusion that the term care pathway was not completely clear to me. There are some questions that I couldn’t answer. One of these questions was about the definitions of a care pathway. What is a care pathway? How is it defined? And after reading some article about care pathways, I came across some comparable definitions, and I asked myself: Is there a difference between the various definitions or are they all synonyms? So I have been investigating on this point and this is what I found so far. 

Literature study (part 2)

It has been a very long time since I posted an update, but that has to do with the exams. Hopefully I passed all exams now (I really think so) and I can start focusing on my literature study. What have I been doing so far this first week? I read some general (background) papers and I searched for some more specific papers. The search key I have been using is based on the question: Is BPMN2.0 the right modeling tool for creating reference models (in the health care domain)? This question is not the research question, but will be closely related to it. I don’t have a final version of my research question(s) yet. As soon as I have formulated them, I will post them so anybody can take a look at it and provide me with some feedback.