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  • Health Informatics
  • Clinical Process Analysis
  • Healthcare Management

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  • Patient care pathways can vary significantly even for similar procedures.
  • High variability in clinical processes is associated with increased adverse events.
  • Standardized methods for quantifying excessive clinical variability are lacking.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To utilize process mining techniques to describe and quantify clinical variability.
  • To visualize clinical variability within patient pathways.
  • To assess the impact of clinical variability on patient outcomes, specifically length of stay.

Main Methods:

  • Process mining was applied to patient data from the MIMIC dataset.
  • Clinical pathways for elective coronary bypass surgery were represented as traces.
  • Variability metrics were calculated, and processes with highest/lowest variability were analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Process mining effectively described and visualized clinical variability.
  • Processes with higher variability showed a dose-response relationship with longer length of stay (LOS).
  • Greater variability correlated with increased LOS.

Conclusions:

  • Process mining offers an effective method for estimating and visualizing clinical variability.
  • Understanding clinical variability is crucial for improving patient outcomes.
  • This approach can identify areas for process optimization to reduce LOS and adverse events.