Abstract:
BACKGROUND:Repetitive laboratory testing in stable patients is low-value care. Electronic health record (EHR)-based interventions are easy to disseminate but can be restrictive. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of a minimally restrictive EHR-based intervention on utilisation. SETTING:One year before and after intervention at a 600-bed tertiary care hospital. 18 000 patients admitted to General Medicine, General Surgery and the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). INTERVENTION:Providers were required to specify the number of times each test should occur instead of being able to order them indefinitely. MEASUREMENTS:For eight tests, utilisation (number of labs performed per patient day) and number of associated orders were measured. RESULTS:Utilisation decreased for some tests on all services. Notably, complete blood count with differential decreased 9% (p<0.001) on General Medicine and 21% (p<0.001) in the ICU. CONCLUSIONS:Requiring providers to specify the number of occurrences of labs changes significantly reduces utilisation in some cases.
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Postgrad Med Jjournal_title
Postgraduate medical journalauthors
Chin KK,Krishnamurthy A,Zubair T,Ramaswamy T,Hom J,Maggio P,Shieh Ldoi
10.1136/postgradmedj-2019-136992subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2021-02-01 00:00:00pages
97-102issue
1144eissn
0032-5473issn
1469-0756pii
postgradmedj-2019-136992journal_volume
97pub_type
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