A process mining approach for clinical guidelines compliance: real-world application in rectal cancer.

ABSTRACT: In the era of evidence-based medicine, several clinical guidelines were developed, supporting cancer management from diagnosis to treatment and aiming to optimize patient care and hospital resources. Nevertheless, individual patient characteristics and organizational factors may lead to deviations from these standard recommendations during clinical practice. In this context, process mining in healthcare constitutes a valid tool to evaluate conformance of real treatment pathways, extracted from hospital data warehouses as event log, to standard clinical guidelines, translated into computer-interpretable formats. In this study we translate the European Society of Medical Oncology guidelines for rectal cancer treatment into a computer-interpretable format using Pseudo-Workflow formalism (PWF)

SUBMITTER: Savino M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10231435 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature