Test Result Management Practices of Canadian Internal Medicine Physicians and Trainees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Missed test results are a cause of medical error. Few studies have explored test result management in the inpatient setting.

Objective

To examine test result management practices of general internal medicine providers in the inpatient setting, examine satisfaction with practices, and quantify self-reported delays in result follow-up.

Design

Cross-sectional survey.

Participants

General internal medicine attending physicians and trainees (residents and medical students) at three Canadian teaching hospitals.

Main measures

Methods used to track test results; satisfaction with these methods; personal encounters with results respondents "wish they had known about sooner."

Key results

We received surveys from 33/51 attendings and 99/108 traine

SUBMITTER: Bodley T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6318178 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature