Using Formal Concept Analysis to Design and Improve Multidisciplinary Clinical Processes

摘要

Recent changes in health care have focused attention on new tools for planning and managing clinical processes. Clinical process employ a concept long used in other industries: the explicit design and documentation of a process. However, the knowledge driven perspective is seldom used when modeling or redesigning a process. Using formal concept analysis, we propose a knowledge management perspective to provide a method for modeling and designing a new multidisciplinary clinical process, in which different medical specialist coordinate the treatment of specific groups of patients and improve the medical quality.