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March 01, 2013 - Make appointments for followup care (e.g., medical appointments, postdischarge tests/labs). … Plan for the followup of results from tests or labs that are pending at discharge. … doctor receives the discharge summary. 9 This delay means the doctor is not immediately aware of which tests … fully understand the nature of their health problems or realize they need to make appointments for tests … found that more than one-third of the patients who left the hospital in need of more care (e.g., lab tests
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March 01, 2013 - Make appointments for followup care (e.g., medical appointments, postdischarge tests/labs). … Plan for the followup of results from tests or labs that are pending at discharge. … doctor receives the discharge summary. 9 This delay means the doctor is not immediately aware of which tests … fully understand the nature of their health problems or realize they need to make appointments for tests … found that more than one-third of the patients who left the hospital in need of more care (e.g., lab tests
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September 01, 2022 - Do I need to order any diagnostic tests? … Do I need to order any diagnostic tests? … Do I need to order any diagnostic tests? … Do I need to order any diagnostic tests? … Do I need to order any diagnostic tests?
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August 01, 2024 - collectively as diagnostic stewardship.9,10
Diagnostic stewardship refers to “ordering the right tests … ordering and also includes, for instance, reporting results in ways that maximize
the usefulness of tests … Background
The increasing number and complexity of diagnostic tests available to clinicians, including … to the tests general
practitioners ordered. … ■ Frequency of orders for tests known to be widely overused or underused.
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June 02, 2025 - coming
to MGH
Associated “ALWAYS” Behaviors
Ask if patients need any
follow-up appointments / tests … comfort / concerns
END
Explain results of exam / procedure
Explain next steps needed
(e.g., tests
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July 14, 2023 - updates from the IAWG Subcommittee on Best Practices for Utilizing Patient
Portals for the Release of Tests … very similar
symptoms, and a full workup and examination (sometimes with
additional diagnostic tests … This policy financially penalizes hospitals that may want to
perform the tests. … The
winning technologies designed and developed diagnostic tests and
platform technologies to reduce … updates from the IAWG Subcommittee on Best
Practices for Utilizing Patient Portals for the Release of Tests
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October 22, 2013 - circumference, blood pressure, and neurological examination for
extrapyramidal symptoms), and laboratory tests … (glucose, insulin, lipid profile tests, AST, ALT, prolactin, and
TSH) for children on AAAs. … should be monitored for metabolic side effects at
baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months with the following tests … Strongest
evidence and
recommendations are
for baseline tests. … Recommendation Type/Grade
A follow-up fasting glucose and fasting lipid panel (one or more of the tests
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January 01, 2024 - Decision by
Clinician with
Patient
Monitor
Obtain information
Order and follow-up on
lab tests … Redundancy
Components to add redundancy:
telephone reminders to patients about ordered laboratory tests … mailed reminders to patients about overdue laboratory monitoring tests
alerts to prescribers and … clinic staff about patients who are overdue for laboratory tests
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Figure 3. … provided to prescribers at the time of
medication prescribing, including easy ordering of laboratory tests
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January 01, 2024 - a Mobile Health Tool to Improve Patient-Centered Care for Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
This study tests … Improving Clinical-Community Linkages in Primary Care for Patients with Multiple Chronic
This study tests … This grant develops and tests a clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help primary care clinicians … Improve Self-Care and Shared Decision-Making for Patients with Chronic Conditions
This study develops and tests
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March 01, 2014 - Learn
which screening tests you need and
when to get them, which medicines
may prevent diseases, and … Get the Screenings You Need
Screenings are tests that look for diseases
before you have symptoms. … Blood pressure
checks and tests for high blood cholesterol
are examples of screenings. … Several
different tests—for example, a stool test or a
colonoscopy—can detect this cancer.
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May 01, 2015 - List presentations in past (12) months, list or provide count of number of relevant tests (e.g., abdominal … care]
[Provide recommendations to minimize harm – such as avoiding certain medications or repeated tests … format (S= reason for plan; B= brief history of recurrent presentations; A: summary of prior visits, tests … Utilization Summary:
· [summarize past 12 months of ED visits, hospitalizations, relevant diagnostic tests
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March 01, 2025 - Determine need for scheduling future tests. … Instruct patient in any preparation required for future tests and confirm understanding. … Discuss importance of clinician appointments and tests/labs. … Plan for the followup of results from tests or labs that are pending at discharge. … Identify tests and lab work with pending results.
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March 01, 2025 - Determine need for scheduling future tests. … Instruct patient in any preparation required for future tests and confirm understanding. … Discuss importance of clinician appointments and tests/labs. … Plan for the followup of results from tests or labs that are pending at discharge. … Identify tests and lab work with pending results.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2025-04/elder-report.pdf
January 01, 2025 - Scope
Primary care providers order tests on a significant number of patients. … Recent estimates
are that family physicians and general internists order laboratory tests in 29% and … 38% of
patient visits, and imaging studies in 10% and 12%, respectively.(1) These tests serve multiple … purposes for primary care physicians – some are screening tests, others are diagnostic, and
still … Commonly grouped tests (complete blood counts, etc.) were
considered a single test.
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September 01, 2005 - Results: The intervention for laboratory tests involved the use of a portable bar
coding utility to … In some cases, one log was used to track lab tests
ordered and another was used to track lab tests returned … By using a single database, tests ordered can be tracked against test
results received to determine … The system tracks
all lab tests ordered and results returned using bar code technology. … as well as
the status of “stat” tests and “alarm” values.
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Health Care Systems for Tracking Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests … Due to a small number of positive stool tests requiring CDE followup, we could not determine in detail