Laboratory Test requesting Appropriateness and Patient Safety / / María Salinas, Maite Lopez-Garrígos, Enrique Rodriguez-Borja, Álvaro Blasco, Arturo Carratalá.

The global medical process is a chain of different medical multidisciplinary procedures. The success in global Patient Safety will depend on the Safety of the consecutive medical processes that intervene in this complex system. Laboratory data is an essential part of health care, indeed it is used i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Patient Safety ; 14
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Physical Description:1 online resource (100 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Table of contents
  • 1. Introduction: clinical laboratory contribution to patient safety
  • 2. Inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting in the literature
  • 3. Causes and negative effects of inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting
  • 4. Strategies to correct inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting
  • 5. Practical pathway to design, establish, and monitor over time test requesting appropriateness strategies: indicators to detect the inappropriateness and to monitor after interventions
  • 6. Potential of computer physician order entry (CPOE) to improve patient safety related to laboratory test requesting
  • References