Moving Forward with Evidence-Based Care Management

Have you looked at how you are/could use evidence-based care management tools? Have you stopped at pathways? Have you checked your pathways lately? Here are some questions to guide those activities.

The first set of questions about pathways concern use, usability, and validity.

 Does anyone use them?

     ▪ Is the patient group still a concern?

     ▪ Is it easy to document information?

     ▪ Has the pathway been updated with current information?

Have they been reviewed lately?

     ▪ Can you find the reference list?

     ▪ Do your pharmacists contribute to reviews?

     ▪ Do your reviews include decisions on retiring pathways?

For more in depth information, check the presentation about our Pathway Appraisal Tool

Do you know the difference between Evidence-Based Medicine and Evidence-Based Decision Making?

Are you using pathway information as evidence for decision making?

     ▪ Does each path have one tracked indicator?

     ▪ Is the feedback loop complete?

How is your information cycle?

Are your organizations processes for quality, utilization, and decision support synchronized?

For help with these questions and more evidence-based care challenges, such as “Looking at the Literature”, contact:

Judith Weinstein
The Brondesbury Group
144 Front Street West, Suite 650
Toronto ON M5J 1G2
Phone: 416-585-2414 ; 1-800-530-7195
judith.weinstein@brondesbury.com
www.brondesbury.com