Abstract
The critical path has many benefits in the medical institute, and most of the hospitals in the whole country use the path. But it is difficult that one disease apply to one path, because even with the same disease each patient has its own personality and variations. And there are so often variances and deviations that critical pathes are seldom continued and completed.
In order to solve these problems, we developed the personal computer (PC) assisted critical path “Crippa-kun II ” that accepts the variety and variances in the patient. This system consists of two parts, [Master] and [Critical path]. The part of [Master] works to set up [Critical path] conditions (patient's personality, outcomes, initial conditions). [Critical path] contains the critical path sheet for each patient and the usually used as the medical records, and to be used every day. The most pronounced characteristic of “Crippa-kun II” is that the status of outcomes achieved in each day is affected in the program for the next day. For example, when the outcomes of one day are over and the critical path is checked, the critical path and outcomes of the following day appear on the PC display.
The result of “Crippa-kun II” is good enough and most of the patients continued the use of their critical pathuntil their discharge. It has been also often observed that “Crippa-kun II” increases the motivation of the patients through its outcome-managed programming.
