The effect of benchmarking clinical practice with the clinical laboratory. An institutional case study.

Abstract:

:The improvement of quality in clinical care can greatly benefit form continuous benchmarking with information based on laboratory data. To be most effective, the information is best provided in the form of real-time disease management decision support. Such an approach requires advances in the implementation of hospital information systems. This article describes ground-breaking work at LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah that provides examples of major well-documented impacts of the "intelligent laboratory report" on patient outcomes.

journal_name

Clin Lab Med

authors

Bissell MG

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1999-12-01 00:00:00

pages

867-76, vii-viii

issue

4

eissn

0272-2712

issn

1557-9832

journal_volume

19

pub_type

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