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Stewardship Committee Charter Template 2

CLICK HERE FOR TEMPLATE- Charter 2 Here’s another template for a Laboratory Stewardship Committee.

Interventions to Improve Follow-Up of Laboratory Test Results Pending at Discharge: A Systematic Review

CLICK HERE FOR PAPER- nihms-1063192 A meta-analysis of published literature on TPADs and a must read if…

A Systematic Review of Interventions to Follow-Up Test results Pending at Discharge

CLICK HERE FOR PAPER- 11606_2017_Article_4290 This is one of my favorite articles about Tests Pending at Discharge. …

OIG: Laboratory Stewardship is Mandatory

“Laboratory Stewardship sounds like a good thing but I really don’t have time and there’s more important…

Your hospital already has a laboratory stewardship committee – Utilization Review.

Around 10 years ago I started a laboratory stewardship committee in my healthcare system by writing a…

Current state of laboratory test utilization practices in the clinical laboratory

Do you ever wonder how prevalent laboratory utilization programs are today, which interventions are being used, and…

Office of Inspector General and laboratory standing orders

In a previous blog entry, I discussed the issue of troponin test intervals and how many of…

Troponin intervals and order sets

Correct testing intervals are critical to ensure optimal test strategy and incorrect test intervals can delay diagnosis. …

Tests pending at discharge. How does laboratory testing impact transition of care?

For those of us in the field of laboratory medicine we all suspect or know a large…

How long has Laboratory Stewardship existed?

The answer might surprise you. I used to think Laboratory Stewardship was a new concept only recently…