Implementing effective test utilization via team-based evaluation and revision of a family medicine laboratory test requisition

BMJ Open Qual. 2021 Mar;10(1):e001219. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2020-001219.

Zahraa Mohammed-Ali¹, Seema Bhandarkar², Shafqat Tahir³, Curtis Handford^{2

4}, Drake Yip³, Daniel Beriault^{1

3}, Lisa K Hicks^{5

6

7}

¹ Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Family and Community Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Unity HealthToronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Family and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada [email protected].
⁶ Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael's Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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Keywords: laboratory medicine; quality improvement; quality improvement methodologies.

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