Rinsho Shinkeigaku (Clinical Neurology)

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Neurology

Symposium VIII: How apply the information technology to neurology?
3) Application of the information technology for critical path and neurointensive care unit

Muetaka Haida, M.D., Ph.D.1) and Yukito Shinohara, M.D., Ph.D.2)

Department of Physiology1) and Neurology2), Tokai University School of Medicine

An effectiveness of neurointensive care unit for the treatment of neurological diseases and an application of the information technology (IT) for this and a critical pathway were discussed. A critical pathway is useful to make a standardized treatment, to reduce the days in hospital and to obtain an informed consent. But the hospital information system should include the critical pathway in itself otherwise doctors have to make duplicated order to nurses and the hospital ordering system.

(CLINICA NEUROL, 42: 1186|1187, 2002)
key words: Neurointensive Care Unit (NICU), critical pathway, Information Technology, hospital information sysytem

(Received: 31-May-02)