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Laboratory test requesting appropriateness and patient safety /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Salinas, María, 1954- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Patient safety ; v. 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : clinical laboratory contribution to patient safety
  • Inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting in the literature
  • Causes and negative effects of inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting
  • Strategies to correct inappropriateness in laboratory test requesting
  • Practical pathway to design, establish and monitor over time test requesting appropriateness strategies : appropriateness indicators to detect the inappropriateness, and to monitor after interventions
  • Potential of computer physician order entry (CPOE) to improve patient safety related to laboratory test requesting.