Downstream activities after laboratory testing in primary care: an exploratory outcome of the ELMO cluster randomised trial (Electronic Laboratory Medicine Ordering with evidence-based order sets in primary care).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To estimate the rate and type of downstream activities (DAs) after laboratory testing in primary care, with a specific focus on check-up laboratory panels, and to explore the effect of a clinical decision support system (CDSS) for laboratory ordering on these DAs.

Design

Cluster randomised clinical trial.

Setting

72 primary care practices in Belgium, with 272 general practitioners (GPs), randomly assigned to the intervention arm or the control arm.

Participants

The study included 10 270 lab panels from 9683 primary care patients (women 55.1%, mean age 56.5). All adult patients who consulted one of the participating GPs during the trial period and needed a laboratory exam were eligible for participation.

Interventions

GPs in the intervention gro

SUBMITTER: Piessens V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8981323 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature