ReviewBiochemia medica2014
The laboratory test utilization management toolbox.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of Practices to Support Appropriate Laboratory Test Utilization: A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.American journal of clinical pathology · 2018Pooled it
- Clinical laboratory diagnostic stewardship as boundary infrastructure: a multi-stakeholder qualitative study of digital public health governance in two Chinese regional referral hospitals.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A 5-step root cause analysis model for test overutilization: A study on its application to plasma transferrin testing.American journal of clinical pathology · 2024Article
- Effect of using smaller blood volume tubes and closed blood collection devices on total blood loss in patients undergoing major cardiac and vascular surgery.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- Current state of laboratory test utilization practices in the clinical laboratory.Academic pathology · 2022Article
- Appropriate use of plasma glucose tests for diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in Ibadan, Nigeria.African journal of laboratory medicine · 2022Article
- Less is more: an ecological and economic point of view on appropriate use of lab testing for COVID-19 patients.Bioanalysis · 2021Article
- Use of large scale EHR data to evaluate A1c utilization among sickle cell disease patients.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Article
- Patient harm associated with serial phlebotomy and blood waste in the intensive care unit: A retrospective cohort study.PloS one · 2021Observational
- Reducing redundant creatine kinase testing in cardiac injury.BMJ open quality · 2020Article
- Self-reported test ordering practices among Canadian internal medicine physicians and trainees: a multicenter cross-sectional survey.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Effectiveness of minimum retesting intervals in managing repetitive laboratory testing: experience from a Croatian university hospital.Biochemia medica · 2019Article
- Improving laboratory test utilisation at the multihospital Yale New Haven Health System.BMJ open quality · 2019Article
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- Using Heatmaps to Identify Opportunities for Optimization of Test Utilization and Care Delivery.Journal of pathology informatics · 2018Article
- Enhancing the Clinical Value of Medical Laboratory Testing.The Clinical biochemist. Reviews · 2017Review
- Optimizing laboratory test utilization in long-term acute care hospitals.Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center) · 2017Article
- Using information theory to identify redundancy in common laboratory tests in the intensive care unit.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2015Article
- Larger differences in utilization of rarely requested tests in primary care in Spain.Biochemia medica · 2015Article
- Education and communication is the key for the successful management of vitamin D test requesting.Biochemia medica · 2015Article
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Abstract
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. These interventions are collectively referred to here as the utilization management toolbox. Experience has shown that some tools in the toolbox are weak and other are strong, and that tools are most effective when many are used simultaneously. While the outcomes of utilization management studies are not always as concrete as may be desired, what data is available in the literature indicate that strong utilization management interventions are safe and effective measures to improve patient health and reduce waste in an era of increasing financial pressure.
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