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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.
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

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

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

care guideline extends the class knowledge

Table 1. Associations of care guideline
Source multiplicity	Source class	Association	Target class	Target multiplicity
1..*	care guideline	centred on	health issue	1..*
0..*	care actor	makes decisions assisted by	care guideline	1..*
0..*	care pathway	refers to	care guideline	0..*
0..*	care plan	conforms to	care guideline	0..*
0..*	care planning	based upon	care guideline	0..*

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Admitted terms clinical guideline

Plural care guidelines

Example 1 Care guidelines related to hypertension, diabetes, pregnancy follow-up, Caesarean section, pressure area management.

Example 2 Exercise programmes.

Example 3 Social intervention programmes for people with a learning disability.

Note 1 Care guidelines are a knowledge resource. They are generic and concern no actual subject of care in particular. They generally reflect a broad statement of good practice and may include multiple operational details.

Note 2 Care guidelines are ordinarily structured and contain standard criteria and indicators for measurement.