Investigation of treatment delay in a complex healthcare process using physician insurance claims data: an application to symptomatic carotid artery stenosis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Delays in diagnostic and therapeutic processes are a potentially preventable cause of morbidity and mortality. Process improvement depends on accurate knowledge about as-is processes, historically collected from front-line workers and summarized in flowcharts. Such flowcharts can now be generated by process discovery algorithms supplied with chronological records from real-world cases. However, these algorithms may generate incomprehensible flowcharts when applied to complex unstructured processes, which are common in healthcare. The aim of this study is to evaluate methods for analysing data from real-world cases to determine causes of delay in complex healthcare processes.

Methods

Physician insurance claims and hospital discharge data were obtained for patients

SUBMITTER: van Gaal SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605873 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature