Implementing Closing the Loop. Safe Practices for Diagnostic Results
Implementing Closing the Loop. Safe Practices for Diagnostic Results Partnership for HIT Patient Safety. Plymouth Meeting, PA: ECRI Institute; 2020.
Health information technology (HIT) can improve record keeping, test ordering and prescription legibility. This report highlights its value in assuring diagnostic communications are reliably completed and shares recommendations to support this work. The publication is accompanied by a guide for organizations to act on the recommendations for closed-loop communication.