14 Years of PLUGS: Lessons and Progress
Speaker:
Michael Astion, MD, PhD, Geoffrey Baird MD, PhD, Jane Dickerson, PhD, DABCC, Creator and Co-Founder, PLUGS, Seattle Children’s Hospital, Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington; Professor and Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington; PLUGS Co-Founder Lab Division Head, Seattle Children’s Hospital,Clinical Associate Professor, University of Washington
Contact Hours:
1.0
Date:
January 29, 2026 - January 31, 2027
Description:
This episode features reflections on the evolution of laboratory stewardship, highlighting key lessons learned, the importance of relationships, and progress made over the past 14 years. The discussion explores successes, ongoing challenges, and future directions, including clinical decision support, benchmarking, and emerging technologies.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify key strategies for building interdisciplinary relationships to support laboratory stewardship programs within health systems.
- Explain how clinical decision support (CDS) systems can improve lab test ordering, naming one challenge in implementing them.
- Describe the importance of specific CPT coding to support laboratory stewardship, using celiac testing as an example.