Decreasing Inappropriate Laboratory Test Utilization
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Decreasing inappropriate laboratory test utilization: controlling costs and improving quality of care.
Laboratory directors, hospital administrators, managed care plans, insurance companies, and governments continue to grapple with the competing demands of controlling health care costs, maintaining or improving quality of care, and addressing demands for increased access to newer expensive technologies. Although annual expenditures for laboratory tests are a relatively small part of total health...
متن کاملThe laboratory test utilization management toolbox
Efficiently managing laboratory test utilization requires both ensuring adequate utilization of needed tests in some patients and discouraging superfluous tests in other patients. After the difficult clinical decision is made to define the patients that do and do not need a test, a wealth of interventions are available to the clinician and laboratorian to help guide appropriate utilization. The...
متن کاملDo we know what inappropriate laboratory utilization is? A systematic review of laboratory clinical audits.
OBJECTIVE Laboratory utilization has steadily increased, and some studies suggest inappropriate utilization. Therefore, we wished to assess studies that measure inappropriate laboratory use in light of methodological criteria. DESIGN Systematic review of published studies. DATA SOURCES MEDLINE, HEALTHSTAR, and EMBASE databases were searched from 1966 to September 1997 using a broad and incl...
متن کاملDo we now know what inappropriate laboratory utilization is? An expanded systematic review of laboratory clinical audits.
OBJECTIVES Many nonpathologists and some pathologists consider utilization review essential to laboratory quality improvement, but (1) confusion surrounding the definition of "appropriate" laboratory utilization, (2) the reliance on manual chart review, and (3) a lack of leadership have contributed to its unstandardized implementation. How the solutions to these barriers have evolved since the ...
متن کاملDrug Utilization and Inappropriate Prescribing in Centenarians
OBJECTIVES To use primary care electronic health records (EHRs) to evaluate prescriptions and inappropriate prescribing in men and women at age 100. DESIGN Population-based cohort study. SETTING Primary care database in the United Kingdom, 1990 to 2013. PARTICIPANTS Individuals reaching the age of 100 between 1990 and 2013 (N = 11,084; n = 8,982 women, n = 2,102 men). MEASUREMENTS Main ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1943-7722,0002-9173
DOI: 10.1309/ajcphqodm9xywlz9