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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/diagnostic-delay-emergency-department
September 18, 2024 - While waiting for the diagnostic tests, the patient had progressively severe pain, requiring relatively … Blood test results (including liver function tests) were normal except for an elevated creatinine level … Initial laboratory and imaging tests ordered for this patient seemed appropriate. … Thus, an urgent CT scan would have been an appropriate next step, along with additional laboratory tests … and problems performing diagnostic tests in a timely manner.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/60911/psn-pdf
September 16, 2020 - errors were primarily
related to clinician diagnostic reasoning, including failure to order needed tests … , erroneous interpretation of
tests, and failure to consider the correct diagnosis.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-between-opioid-prescribing-patterns-and-abuse-ophthalmology
April 12, 2019 - January 4, 2017
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/exploring-potential-using-drug-indications-prevent-look-alike-and-sound-alike-drug-errors
December 18, 2019 - July 8, 2009
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-costs-associated-adverse-events-gynecological-oncology
March 09, 2022 - October 18, 2023
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/perspective-malpractice-academic-medical-center-frequently-overlooked-aspect-professionalism
April 03, 2024 - November 16, 2022
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/860049/psn-pdf
January 04, 2024 - Most of these tests had to be sent to an external laboratory and the results returned intermittently … Such a process may be especially useful for tests that are typically ordered and acted upon by a single … specialty service, such as tests for rare neuromuscular disorders. … Without specific direction to review tests with pending results at the time of discharge, the primary … Diagnostic workups that include multiple send-out laboratory tests are often difficult to follow across
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/implementation-diagnostic-pauses-ambulatory-setting
January 31, 2024 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Low rate of completion of recommended tests … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/60-year-old-man-delayed-care-renal-mass
January 31, 2024 - Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
Low rate of completion of recommended tests … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/39915/psn-pdf
December 18, 2014 - summaries were more concise yet
contained more information about key care transitions issues, such as tests … readmissions-and-adverse-events-after-discharge
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/adequacy-hospital-discharge-summaries-documenting-tests-pending-results-and-outpatient-follow
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/diagnostic-stewardship-leveraging-laboratory-improve-antimicrobial-use
March 15, 2023 - Problems managing laboratory tests can contribute to diagnostic error. … January 22, 2014
To expand the evidence base about harms from tests and treatments.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/854986/psn-pdf
November 01, 2023 - /implementing-safer-and-more-reliable-system-monitor-test-results-teaching-
university
Laboratory tests … As an academic family
practice clinic, an important first step was allowing residents to order tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/anatomy-cyberattack-part-4-quality-assurance-and-error-reduction-billing-and-compliance
April 27, 2022 - 26, 2021
Prevalence and predictability of low-yield inpatient laboratory diagnostic tests … September 25, 2019
The impact of automated notification on follow-up of actionable tests … Design and implementation of an automated email notification system for results of tests
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/summary-and-frequency-barriers-adoption-cpoe-us
March 17, 2021 - June 8, 2011
Low rate of completion of recommended tests and referrals in an academic … patients who read visit notes on the patient portal have a higher rate of "loop closure" on diagnostic tests … January 17, 2024
Completion of recommended tests and referrals in telehealth vs in-person
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/evidence-bias-and-variation-diagnostic-accuracy-studies
February 15, 2023 - Clinician and patient understanding of the benefits and risks of screening tests can prevent both … under- and over-diagnosis ; as such, screening and diagnostic tests must provide accurate results.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/some-cancer-experts-see-overdiagnosis-question-emphasis-early-detection
June 19, 2019 - treatment of tumors that may never cause harm, this newspaper article discusses the impact of unnecessary tests … Researchers are working to design better tests to distinguish between benign abnormalities and cancers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37597/psn-pdf
February 15, 2010 - accuracy-send-out-test-ordering-college-american-pathologists-q-probes-
study-ordering
Errors in ordering send-out tests … (tests performed at specialized regional laboratories) were common,
despite the use of a computerized
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2020-02/final_spotlight_opat_powerpoint_01102020_tocme.pdf
January 01, 2020 - The post discharge follow-up laboratory tests that had been
ordered were not available in the medical … (5)
The follow-up lab tests again were not available for review
during the Infectious diseases clinic … continued after discharge by
the OPAT team, then SNF would have been reminded to
collect necessary lab tests … effectively and successfully.5,6
• OPAT team must ensure active follow-up and management of
lab tests … The
physician assesses laboratory tests and follows patients in
clinic during the course of treatment
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43578/psn-pdf
October 01, 2014 - treatment of tumors that may never cause harm, this
newspaper article discusses the impact of unnecessary tests … Researchers are working to design better tests to distinguish between benign abnormalities and
cancers
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/45018/psn-pdf
November 18, 2016 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/identifying-risk-use-tumor-markers-improve-patient-safety
Inappropriate use of laboratory tests … This retrospective
chart review found that the majority of tumor marker tests requested in an academic