Optimizing Send-Outs to Support Lab Stewardship
Speaker:
Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC; Monical Wellner
Contact Hours:
1.0
Date:
May 28, 2025 - May 31, 2027
Description:
Diagnostic errors in laboratory testing can cause significant patient harm. Send-out testing to referral laboratories is particularly risk-prone due to multiple hand-offs, longer TAT, unfamiliarity with low volume tests, and manual result entry. This webinar will describe how Seattle Children’s decreased the number of reference laboratories used and implemented a case review system as part of a laboratory stewardship program.
Learning Objectives:
- Summarize potential patient safety risks with laboratory send outs.
- Identify opportunities to reduce unnecessary test orders.
- Describe tools available to support process improvement.