PATH

European healthcare systems are faced with multiple challenges, including an aging population, an increase in chronic diseases and patients with multiple illnesses, and limited financial and human resources. The response to these challenges relies in particular on the organization of care into care pathways, justified by the scientific literature and supported in France by political orientations. The analysis of care pathways and their adequacy to needs and resources has thus become a major scientific and administrative challenge. Although the numerical data available for this purpose are rapidly increasing, the methods and statistical tools available to researchers and health authorities remain limited and inefficient. PATH proposes to develop statistical methods for the construction/analysis of the patient pathway through two applications dealing with the re-hospitalization of the elderly and post-operative complications.