Pending studies at hospital discharge: a pre-post analysis of an electronic medical record tool to improve communication at hospital discharge.

Molly A Kantor; Kambria H Evans; Lisa Shieh

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Pending studies at hospital discharge: a pre-post analysis of an electronic medical record tool to improve communication at hospital discharge.

January 7, 2015

Kantor MA, Evans KH, Shieh L. J Gen Intern Med. 2015;30(3):312-8.

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In this single-site study, 70% of patients discharged from a general medicine service had at least one pending test result. The introduction of a tool that automatically generates a list of studies pending at discharge improved communication of pending studies from 18% to 43%.

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