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Plans and events
The concepts describing how care planning produces the family of care plans — guided by guidelines, protocols, and pathways — and the unintended events plans must anticipate.
adverse event
unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process

Plans and events
The concepts describing how care planning produces the family of care plans — guided by guidelines, protocols, and pathways — and the unintended events plans must anticipate.
- care planning
  care activity management where a care plan is managed
- care goal
  desired achievement of one or more care activities
- intended outcome
  desired achievement of a care process addressing health needs
- care guideline
  set of systematically developed statements based on knowledge to assist the decisions made by care actors about care activities to be performed with regard to specified health issues
- protocol
  customized care guideline
- care pathway
  detailed guidance for each stage in the interdisciplinary management of a subject of care
- care plan
  dynamic, personalized plan including identified needed care activity, intended outcomes and care goals, relating to one or more specified health needs in a care process
- core care plan
  knowledge providing reusable content addressing one or more specified health issues
- social care plan
  care plan addressing social issues
- clinical care plan
  care plan addressing clinical issues
- integrated care plan
  care plan crossing organizational, professional and contextual borders
- unintended event
  phenomenon that is not part of the normal course of a process
- adverse event
  unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process
- adverse event management
  set of care activities performed in response to an adverse event

adverse event

unintended event that has negative impact upon a care process

adverse event extends the class unintended event

Table 1. Associations of adverse event
Source multiplicity	Source class	Association	Target class	Target multiplicity
1..*	adverse event	negatively influences	care process	1..*
1..*	adverse event	requires	adverse event management	1

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Plural adverse events

Example 1 An infection acquired during a hospital stay.

Example 2 A drug can be used as recommended but cause allergic reaction when the drug allergy was not known before the treatment.

Example 3 An accident in connection to a care activity.

Example 4 A mishap during correctly performed care activity.

Note 1 'Iatrogenesis' or 'iatrogenic' is a common cause of adverse events.

Note 2 Adverse events can occur during appropriate care activities.

Note 3 Adverse events cause harm.