Learning Care Pathways Framework: A New Method to Implement, Learn, Replicate, and Scale up Care Pathways for and With the Patient.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although care pathways are a response to the calls for a major change in health system redesign initiatives, very few articles have proposed an implementation method. Indeed, no method exists for large-scale projects of care pathways, as sets of interventions within health systems. Drawing on the systems thinking approach and the pragmatic sociology, we describe the implementation methodology of the Learning Care Pathways (LCP) framework, a method to implement, learn, replicate, and scale up care pathways for and with the patient.

Methods

The LCP was conceptually developed through a series of literature reviews on key methodological concepts. As a comprehensive, theory-informed approach, the LCP emerged by linking implementation strategies, research methods, learn

SUBMITTER: Gartner JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12032254 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature