As a gateway to specialty care, primary care relies on patient testing—including laboratory work and imaging—for many kinds of patient diagnoses and treatments. Because of this, patient safety can be adversely affected when testing orders are not tracked, results are lost, or patients are not notified of results. Non-standardized testing management also worsens clinical outcomes, lessens system resilience, and increases clinician workload, costs, and delays. During development of a system to better support patient test tracking, a survey was performed to assess perceptions, attitudes, and actions of current healthcare practitioners. Responses from 261 people show a variety of experience with the phrase “no news is good news ” for testing re...
PURPOSE We wanted to explore test results management systems in family medicine offices and to deli...
Background: The systems-based management of laboratory test ordering and results handling is a known...
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is an emerging technology that provides crucial assistance in deliverin...
BACKGROUND: Point-of-care (POC) tests are devices or test strips that can be used near or at the sit...
IntroductionThe failure to follow-up pathology and medical imaging test results poses patient-safety...
Objective The management and follow-up of diagnostic test results is a major patient safety concern...
Introduction: Laboratory testing in primary care is a fundamental process that supports patient mana...
OBJECTIVE: To identify patient safety monitoring strategies in primary care. DESIGN: Open-ended que...
Background Diagnostic testing provides integral information for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment...
Background: Diagnostic testing provides integral informationfor the prevention, diagnosis, treatment...
Many health care institutions are implementing patient portals that allow patients to track and main...
Background: The World Health Organization-World Alliance for Patient Safety has identified test resu...
An important focus for meaningful use criteria is to engage patients in their care by allowing them ...
Objective: Suboptimal design of health information technology (IT) systems can lead to the introduct...
PURPOSE We wanted to explore test results management systems in family medicine offices and to deli...
Background: The systems-based management of laboratory test ordering and results handling is a known...
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is an emerging technology that provides crucial assistance in deliverin...
BACKGROUND: Point-of-care (POC) tests are devices or test strips that can be used near or at the sit...
IntroductionThe failure to follow-up pathology and medical imaging test results poses patient-safety...
Objective The management and follow-up of diagnostic test results is a major patient safety concern...
Introduction: Laboratory testing in primary care is a fundamental process that supports patient mana...
OBJECTIVE: To identify patient safety monitoring strategies in primary care. DESIGN: Open-ended que...
Background Diagnostic testing provides integral information for the prevention, diagnosis, treatment...
Background: Diagnostic testing provides integral informationfor the prevention, diagnosis, treatment...
Many health care institutions are implementing patient portals that allow patients to track and main...
Background: The World Health Organization-World Alliance for Patient Safety has identified test resu...
An important focus for meaningful use criteria is to engage patients in their care by allowing them ...
Objective: Suboptimal design of health information technology (IT) systems can lead to the introduct...
PURPOSE We wanted to explore test results management systems in family medicine offices and to deli...
Background: The systems-based management of laboratory test ordering and results handling is a known...
Point-of-care testing (POCT) is an emerging technology that provides crucial assistance in deliverin...