Improving the consistency with which investigations are requested
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- DOI: 10.3109/14639238109017764
Improving the consistency with which investigations are requested
Abstract
The study shows how a computer-based prompt system improved the frequency with which a set of routine laboratory investigations were ordered. In the first study the number of tests not ordered fell from 68 to 16, and in a second study from 130 to 19.
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