Enhancing laboratory report contents to improve outpatient management of test results

Case report: Enhancing laboratory report contents to improve outpatient management of test results

In today's environment, providers are extremely time-constrained. Assembling relevant contextual data to make decisions on laboratory results can take a significant amount of time from the day. The Regenstrief Institute has created a system which leverages data within Indiana Health Information Exchange's (IHIE's) repository, the Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), to provide well-organize...

Supplementing claims data with outpatient laboratory test results to improve confounding adjustment in effectiveness studies of lipid-lowering treatments

BACKGROUND Adjusting for laboratory test results may result in better confounding control when added to administrative claims data in the study of treatment effects. However, missing values can arise through several mechanisms. METHODS We studied the relationship between availability of outpatient lab test results, lab values, and patient and system characteristics in a large healthcare datab...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics

An Extension of the Earned Value Management to Improve the Accuracy of Schedule Analysis Results

A project is any endeavor involving planned action, for example, developing a new product or constructing a dam. [CE1] Major factors for a project to be successful are applying performance measurement and feedback tool. One such well-known performance measurement tool to control the project execution is earned value management (EVM). EVM uses the fundamental principle that trends in the past ca...

Variability of laboratory test results.

Variabilities of serum total cholesterol and potassium results provided to 11 medical clinics were assessed using an audit sample-split specimen design. This involved collection of 3 tubes of blood from each of 302 patients, with 1 split specimen divided into 3 audit samples: 1 was sent to the original participating laboratory, another to a commercial referral laboratory, and the third to an ac...