Discharge education
DEMO-26 — Equivalent Fulfillment Through a Protocol-Permitted Alternate Pathway
Authored demonstration. Not a live employer result.
01 · Situation
A governing protocol names two pathways as equally valid ways to satisfy an obligation. The party uses the second.
Illustrative discharge-education protocol, explicitly naming both an in-person teach-back session and a documented structured phone follow-up as equally valid methods of satisfying the patient-education obligation, each with its own stated closure conditions.
02 · Evidence
What the record holds.
- E1Protocol naming both pathways as equivalent, with pathway-specific closure conditions for each
Verified · on file
- E2Structured phone follow-up completed and documented, meeting that pathway's stated closure conditions
Verified · Day 1
03 · Obligations / Owners
The chain of responsibility.
- 01
Discharging clinician/care team (satisfy the education obligation via either named pathway, per E1).
04 · Event Type
The classification of the event.
ExecutionClaimed and EvidenceAttached (E2); VerificationCompleted against the phone-pathway's own closure conditions in E1.
05 · Verification Result
What verification established.
SUPPORTED — E2 meets the closure conditions the protocol itself defines for the pathway actually used.
06 · Projection
What the evidence implies ahead.
Fulfilled, via the protocol-permitted alternate pathway.
07 · Next Action
The corrective obligation.
None — properly fulfilled.
08 · Economic Boundary
Where the evidence stops.
Not applicable.
09 · Engine Answer
What the Engine can and cannot establish.
The protocol in E1 names two pathways as equally valid, each with its own closure conditions. The team used the phone-follow-up pathway. E2 meets that pathway's own stated conditions. The Engine can demonstrate fulfillment through the pathway actually used, verified against its own applicable standard — not against the other pathway's conditions, which do not apply here.
A different pathway. The same protocol permitted it, and its own conditions were met.
10 · What Remains Unknown
Outside the Engine's reach.
Nothing material; this record does not indicate why one pathway was chosen over the other.