Table 10 Illustrative examples of publications undertaking conformance analysis on derived de facto patient pathways

Lenkowicz et al. [47]

Application of pMineR library to conformance analysis of translated clinical guidelines

Poelmans et al. [48]

Identification of quality of care issues at individual and group levels; subsets of patients with more complex care needs and pathways; and requirement for redesign of formal care pathway

Li et al. [49]

Determination of odds-ratios for the effect on outcomes of a variation in practice

Hwang et al. [50]

Yang and Hwang [51]

Detection of non-standard clinical practice identifying fraudulent reimbursement claims

Bouarfa and Dankelman [52]

Outlying practices in laparoscopic surgery workflows identified from video-derived physical position process model