A quality improvement project to reduce overutilization of blood tests in a teaching hospital

• Principais autores: Mohammad Almeqdadi (Autor), Hari Krishnan Nair (Autor), Jeoffrey Hill (Autor), Julian Sanchez-Cruz (Autor), Claudia Nader (Autor), Bertrand L. Jaber (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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Objective: In hospitals, physicians-in-training are major contributors to the burden of tests ordered, increasing cost and resource utilization. We implemented an intervention to discourage overutilization of the complete blood count (CBC) and the basic metabolic panel (BMP). Methods: An interventio...