A process mining approach to assessing diagnostic pathways in a memory clinic
Cristina Festari, Claudio Singh Solorzano, Stefania Orini, Simona Buscarnera, Francesco Rossato, Michela Pievani, Matteo Cotta Ramusino, FEDERICO MASSA, Roberto Gatta, Giovanni B Frisoni · 2025
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A memory clinic's workup follows guidelines on paper, but real pathways wander, and the wandering is hard to see in charts. Cristina Festari and nine co-authors borrow process mining, a technique from business analytics, in 2025 to trace 539 new patients through a Geneva clinic. The software rebuilds the commonest routes by diagnosis stage.
Everyone with mere subjective decline got a full thinking assessment and a structural scan. Spinal fluid testing was the first biomarker step for impaired patients, used in about a quarter to a third, with brain scans of metabolism or amyloid as the second line. Dementia patients arrived at first visits with imaging more often than milder cases. The authors say the method fits this work and will now be tried across six European clinics.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Cristina Festari, Claudio Singh Solorzano, Stefania Orini, Simona Buscarnera, Francesco Rossato, Michela Pievani, Matteo Cotta Ramusino, FEDERICO MASSA, Roberto Gatta, Giovanni B Frisoni |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |