Explore a clinical pathway and its underlying guideline

Find the pathway

Choose a pathway by specialty and confirm its intended subject.

Check its source

Open the primary guideline and inspect the version and applicable region.

Follow the branches

Read the conditions and warnings at each step. The diagram should help you inspect the structure of the guidance.

Keep local context

Compare with your institution's current policy and the individual clinical context. A public pathway is not a substitute for either.

A worked workflow example

Explore the published sepsis pathway as a source-reading exercise. A dated inventory helps you find the page. Its export date does not establish a new clinical review or the currency of every guideline.

1. 01

   Your input

   Ask: 'How does this pathway organise its sepsis guideline, and where do I need the source to interpret a branch?' Search sepsis in Clinical Pathways and identify the sepsis-management-ssc-2021 page. This teaching question supplies no patient details or management instruction.

2. 02

   In AttendMe

   Open the pathway. Read Guideline Source and use View Guideline or its DOI link when provided. Confirm the source version and scope. Read Clinical Safety Information before following Algorithm Steps. Use the original source whenever a branch needs more detail.

3. 03

   What you inspect

   Follow one branch at a time and match its conditions with the original guidance. Check region, date and population. Record omitted context. The diagram organises the source; it does not replace current institutional policy. Inspect newer guidance when the cited source has been superseded.

4. 04

   Your reviewed result

   Example reading note: 'Pathway: record page identifier. Guideline: confirm title and version. Branch: record the condition. Source passage: locate the guidance. Local comparison: identify current policy. Unresolved detail: state the question.' Keep the inventory export date separate from the guideline date and clinical-review status.

Before you reuse the result

Use this final check to decide whether the work is ready to discuss, save or continue. A useful output preserves its evidence, its scope and the questions it could not answer.

• The named guideline and version match the pathway you opened.
• You checked the source region and intended population.
• Branch conditions are supported by the original guidance.
• The export date is distinct from guideline currency and clinical review.