Impact of diagnostic management team on patient time to diagnosis and percent of accurate and clinically actionable diagnoses.

Jessica Brashear; Ryan Mize; Michael Laposata; Christopher Zahner

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Impact of diagnostic management team on patient time to diagnosis and percent of accurate and clinically actionable diagnoses.

May 29, 2024

Brashear J, Mize R, Laposata M, et al. Diagnosis (Berl). 2024;11(2):132-135.

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Diagnostic management teams (DMT), which are comprised of experts in specialized fields, review patient cases and produce reports with diagnostic interpretations and recommendations for future testing or treatments. This pre/post study evaluates the effectiveness of a coagulation DMT at one hospital. Cases reviewed by the DMT were twice as likely to have a diagnostic conclusion (i.e., ruled in or ruled out coagulopathy) than cases without DMT.

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