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    • Health Informatics
    • Computer Science
    • Formal Methods

    Background:

    • Poorly constructed care pathways can lead to execution issues and medical errors.
    • Formal verification methods are crucial for ensuring the reliability of healthcare processes.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To develop and evaluate algorithms for formally verifying modeled care pathways.
    • To identify specific defects in care pathway construction, including deadlocks, non-determinism, and inaccessible steps.

    Main Methods:

    • Utilized a constraint programming library and a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for pathway encoding.
    • Developed algorithms to check for four types of pathway defects: deadlocks, non-determinism, inaccessible steps, and equivalent guard conditions.
    • Tested the algorithms on 84 real-world care pathways from hospital and surgical settings.

    Main Results:

    • Successfully identified 200 problems across 84 real-world care pathways.
    • Verification process completed in under 1 second for most pathways, demonstrating high efficiency.
    • The algorithms effectively detected various critical issues within the modeled pathways.

    Conclusions:

    • The proposed algorithms provide an efficient and effective method for the formal verification of care pathways.
    • This approach can significantly reduce the risk of medical errors by detecting construction flaws early.
    • The use of open-source tools makes this method accessible for broader adoption in healthcare settings.