 Clinical pathways are tools used to guide evidence-based healthcare, but there is confusion regarding their impact on hospital resources and patient outcomes. A team of Cochrane Review authors developed criteria to define a clinical pathway as a structured multidisciplinary plan of care that translates guidelines or evidence into local structures, details the steps in a course of treatment or care in a plan, pathway, algorithm, guideline, protocol or other inventory of actions has timeframes or criteria-based progression and aims to standardize care for a specific clinical problem, procedure or episode of healthcare in a specific population. The authors included studies that met these criteria as clinical pathways even if they referred to them by different names such as protocols or care models. These criteria can serve as a foundation for the development of a standardized, internationally accepted definition of a clinical pathway. This article was authored by Snow Pamela, James Erika, Rota Thomas and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.