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Effect of Norms on Laboratory and Imaging Testing (ENLITen)

NCT02330289 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 154

Last updated 2023-04-06

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Summary

Studies suggest that some laboratory tests ordered for hospitalized patients are duplicative or have limited value. This study will evaluate a normative feedback intervention to reduce overuse of laboratory tests for hospitalized patients by internal medicine physicians-in-training.

Conditions

  • Utilization
  • Laboratory, Hospital

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Normative report card

Personalized visual report card describing physician's laboratory ordering pattern for prior week relative to peers as well as a link to a website tracking lab ordering for the team in real time compared to peer teams.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Kira L Ryskina, MD · University of Pennsylvania

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-12-31
Primary Completion
2016-06-30
Completion
2016-09-30

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