Identifying and Mitigating Send-out Errors

Speaker:

Jane Dickerson, PhD

Contact Hours:

1.0

Date:

January 14, 2025 - January 31, 2027

Description:
Dr. Jane Dickerson completed her post-doctoral training at the University of Washington where she was a clinical chemistry fellow in the department of Lab Medicine.   As a faculty member at Seattle Children’s and the University of Washington Department of Lab Medicine, she focuses her research on the science of the delivery of care – improving processes to get the right test ordered (utilization management), performed (analysis of alternative matrices), and resulted (failure to retrieve) for the best patient care.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify challenges related to interpreting and processing test orders that contribute to diagnostic error
  2. Evaluate the patient safety risks related to variable processes of entering test results
  3. Design pre and post-analytical workflows for optimal lab test coordination