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• Bossuyt PM, Irwig L, Craig J, Glasziou P. Comparative accuracy: assessing new tests against existing diagnostic pathways. BMJ 2006;332:1089-92.

• Weingarten S. Critical pathways: what do you do when they do not seem to work? Am J Med 2001;110:224-5

• Every NR, Hochman J, Becker R, Kopecky S, Cannon CP. Critical pathways : a review. Committee on Acute Cardiac Care, Council on Clinical Cardiology, American Heart Association. Circulation 2000;101:461-5

• Kitchiner DJ, Bundred PE. Clinical pathways. A practical tool for specifying, evaluating and improving the quality of clinical practice. MJA 1999;170:54-55

• Campbell H, Hotchkiss R, Bradshaw N, et al. Integrated care pathways. BMJ 1998;316:133-7

• Weiland DE. Why use clinical pathways rather than practice guidelines? Am J Surg 1997;174:592-5. [abstract] 

• Pearson SD, Goulart-Fisher D, Lee TH. Critical pathways as a strategy for improving care: problems and potential. Ann Intern Med 1995;123:941-8.

Implementation of ICPs

• Loeb M, Carusone SC, Goeree R, et al. Effect of a clinical pathway to reduce hospitalizations in nursing home residents with pneumonia: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2006;295:2503-10.

• Wolff AM, Taylor SA, McCabe JF. Using checklists and reminders in clinical pathways to improve hospital inpatient care. Med J Aust 2004;181:428-31.

• Wright PJ, English PJ, Hungin AP, Marsden SN. Managing acute renal colic across the primary-secondary care interface: a pathway of care based on evidence and consensus. BMJ 2002;325:1408-12

• Reilly BM, Evans AT, Schaider JJ, et al. Impact of a clinical decision rule on hospital triage of patients with suspected acute cardiac ischemia in the emergency department. JAMA 2002;288:342-50.

• Marrie TJ, Lau CY, Wheeler SL, et al. A controlled trial of a critical pathway for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia. CAPITAL Study Investigators. Community-Acquired Pneumonia Intervention Trial Assessing Levofloxacin. JAMA 2000;283:749-55.

• Wong C, Visram F, Cook D, Griffith L, Randall J, O'Brien B, Higgins D. Development, dissemination, implementation and evaluation of a clinical pathway for oxygen therapy. CMAJ 2000;162:29-33. 

• Dowsey M, Kilgour M, Santamaria N, Choong PFM. A prospective study of clinical pathways in hip and knee arthroplasty. MJA 1999;170:59-62

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