Initiative to reduce unnecessary routine daily testing of complete blood counts across 11 safety net hospitals
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OBJECTIVES: National societies recommend against performing routine daily laboratory testing without a specific indication. Unnecessary testing can lead to patient harm, such as hospital-acquired anemia. The objective of this study was to reduce repeat complete blood counts (CBCs) after initial testing.
METHODS: This was a quality improvement initiative implemented across 11 safety net hospitals in New York City. A best practice advisory (BPA) was implemented that asked the user to remove a CBC if the last 2 CBCs within 72 hours had normal white blood cell and platelet counts and unchanged hemoglobin levels. The outcome measure was the rate of CBCs per 1000 patient days preintervention (January 8, 2020, to December 22, 2020) to postintervention (December 23, 2020, to December 7, 2021). The process measure was the acceptance rate of the BPA, defined as the number of times the repeat CBC order was removed through the BPA divided by the total number of times the BPA triggered.
RESULTS: Across 11 hospitals, repeat CBC testing decreased by 12.3% (73.05 to 64.04 per 1000 patient days, P < .001). Six of the 11 hospitals exhibited statistically significant decreases, ranging from a 10% to 48.9% decrease of repeat CBCs. The overall BPA action rate was 20.0% (24,029 of 119,944 repeat CBCs).
CONCLUSIONS: This low-effort, electronic health record-based intervention can effectively reduce unnecessary laboratory testing.
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American journal of clinical pathology - 161(2024), 4 vom: 03. Apr., Seite 388-392 |
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Date Completed 04.04.2024 Date Revised 04.04.2024 published: Print Citation Status MEDLINE |
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10.1093/ajcp/aqad159 |
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| 520 | |a OBJECTIVES: National societies recommend against performing routine daily laboratory testing without a specific indication. Unnecessary testing can lead to patient harm, such as hospital-acquired anemia. The objective of this study was to reduce repeat complete blood counts (CBCs) after initial testing | ||
| 520 | |a METHODS: This was a quality improvement initiative implemented across 11 safety net hospitals in New York City. A best practice advisory (BPA) was implemented that asked the user to remove a CBC if the last 2 CBCs within 72 hours had normal white blood cell and platelet counts and unchanged hemoglobin levels. The outcome measure was the rate of CBCs per 1000 patient days preintervention (January 8, 2020, to December 22, 2020) to postintervention (December 23, 2020, to December 7, 2021). The process measure was the acceptance rate of the BPA, defined as the number of times the repeat CBC order was removed through the BPA divided by the total number of times the BPA triggered | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: Across 11 hospitals, repeat CBC testing decreased by 12.3% (73.05 to 64.04 per 1000 patient days, P < .001). Six of the 11 hospitals exhibited statistically significant decreases, ranging from a 10% to 48.9% decrease of repeat CBCs. The overall BPA action rate was 20.0% (24,029 of 119,944 repeat CBCs) | ||
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