Computerized display of past test results. Effect on outpatient testing
Journal
Ann Intern Med
Publication Date
1987 Oct
Volume
107
Issue
4
Pages
569-74
Summary:
- HIT Description: Electronic Health Record (EHR) used for ambulatory computerized order entry More info...
- Purpose of Study: To determine the effect of displaying previous results of diagnostic tests on the ordering of selected outpatient tests.
- Years of study: Not specified
- Study Design: Pre-Post study of physicians, with patients visits randomized to the intervention vs. control group.
- Outcomes: Rates of test-ordering for 8 selected tests
- Settings: General Medicine Clinic at an academically affiliated hospital, with general internal medicine faculty and residents.
- Intervention: Display of past test results during obligatory computerized physician order entry in the ambulatory care clinic.
- Evaluation Method: Data extracted from the HER
- HIT System: Regenstrief Medical Record System
- Healthcare Utilization: Significant reduction in the number of tests and charges for tests before vs. after the intervention.