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Improving Management of Outpatient Actionable Test Results

NCT01385982 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 6000

Last updated 2016-01-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Clinically significant test results require timely clinician follow-up including the non-urgent clinically significant, or actionable, test results that have received less standardized management and attention. Unfortunately, failure to correctly manage actionable test results is not infrequent and may be associated with important delays in diagnosis and treatment and patient harm. The investigators have designed a safe practice intervention to improve the management of actionable test results for ambulatory patients in a large healthcare system.

Conditions

  • Management of Actionable Test Results (ATRs)

Interventions

OTHER

Actionable Test Result Management/Standardization

The intervention includes enterprise-wide standardization of actionable test result (ATR) definitions with stratification of significant results into alert levels, expected timeframes for clinician responses, a set of policies for ATR follow-up, metrics to measure ATR management and performance feedback.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)

    collaborator FED

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jeffrey Rothschild, M.D. · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-07-31
Primary Completion
2012-09-30
Completion
2013-01-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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