One Big Happy Lab Family

Speaker:

Nikki Gentile, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Washington, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington

Contact Hours:

1.0

Date:

January 01, 2025 - January 31, 2027

Description:
Primary care clinicians face challenges that interfere with high-quality lab stewardship. Dr. Nicole Gentile discusses how an inter-disciplinary team comprised of family medicine and lab medicine can collaborate to overcome these challenges using evidence-based approaches that improve test utilization.
Learning Objectives:
  1. Identify 3 patient directed and lab-related requests commonly messaged to PCPs.
  2. Identify two challenges encountered by primary care clinicians that negatively impact test utilization.
  3. Describe one way that primary care and lab medicine can partner to improve laboratory stewardship.