Evidence-based guidelines to eliminate repetitive laboratory testing

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 177, Issue 12, 2017, Pages 1833-1839

  Eaton, Kevin P ^a   Levy, Kathryn ^b   Soong, Christine ^c,d   Pahwa, Amit K ^a   Petrilli, Christopher ^b,e   Ziemba, Justin B ^f   Cho, Hyung J ^g   Alban, Rodrigo ^h   Blanck, Jaime F ^a   Parsons, Andrew S ⁱ  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Women s College Hospital   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; ALGORITHM; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL AUDIT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTERIZED PROVIDER ORDER ENTRY; COST CONTROL; EDUCATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEADERSHIP; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HOSPITALIZATION; PATIENT CARE; UTILIZATION;

DECISION MAKING; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 85038130227     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.5152     Document Type: Article

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