title: Improving the consistency with which investigations are requested.
abstract: The study shows how a computer-based prompt system improved the frequency with which a set of routine laboratory investigations were ordered. In the first study the number of tests not ordered fell from 68 to 16, and in a second study from 130 to 19.
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000175:diagnosis; D019411:Clinical Laboratory Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003201:Computers; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000175:diagnosis; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis; D008501:Medical Records, Problem-Oriented; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000175:diagnosis