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:
- Identify 3 patient directed and lab-related requests commonly messaged to PCPs.
- Identify two challenges encountered by primary care clinicians that negatively impact test utilization.
- Describe one way that primary care and lab medicine can partner to improve laboratory stewardship.