Quality Improvement Intervention for Reduction of Redundant Testing

• Main Authors: Alan M. Ducatman MD, MS (Author), Danyel H. Tacker PhD (Author), Barbara S. Ducatman MD (Author), Dustin Long PhD (Author), Peter L. Perrotta MD (Author), Hannah Lawther MD (Author), Kelly Pennington MD (Author), Owen Lander MD (Author), Mary Warden MD (Author), Conard Failinger MD (Author), Kevin Halbritter MD (Author), Ronald Pellegrino MD (Author), Marney Treese MD (Author), Jeffrey A. Stead MD (Author), Eric Glass DO (Author), Lauren Cianciaruso DO (Author), Konrad C. Nau MD (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2017-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Laboratory data are critical to analyzing and improving clinical quality. In the setting of residual use of creatine kinase M and B isoenzyme testing for myocardial infarction, we assessed disease outcomes of discordant creatine kinase M and B isoenzyme +/troponin I (−) test pairs in order to addres...