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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.
unintended event
phenomenon that is not part of the normal course of a 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

unintended event

phenomenon that is not part of the normal course of a process

unintended event extends the class event

Figure 1. Class Diagram

Example 1 Surgical complication (anatomy and tissue reacts in an unexpected manner).

Example 2 Electrical failure.

Example 3 Contamination in a medicinal product.

Example 4 Hardware failure.

Example 5 Spontaneous recovery when the subject of care is awaiting therapy.

Note 1 An unintended event can be either expected or unexpected.

Note 2 Activities in a process are deliberate and have a purpose. In an ideal situation purposes are always fulfilled. If an activity in whatever other process has an impact on the process currently analysed, the effect of this activity is perceived by the current process as an unintended event. Then the course of the process may deviate from the expected one. Such an exception from the desired course might prove negative or positive in comparison to the desired process outcome.