title: Improving the Laboratory Add-On Process and Increasing Housestaff Satisfaction with an EMR Intervention.
abstract: At a community hospital in Brooklyn, New York, the process for ordering add-on testing to drawn blood tubes involved filling out a paper sheet, then faxing and bulleting that sheet to the lab. It was a very inefficient, cumbersome, and unsatisfactory way of completing the process. In light of this, an EMR intervention was implemented in which the add-on order was placed as an EMR order. The study spanned over almost five years, over a year of which was post-intervention. There was a statistically significant increase in the number of add-on orders being placed as a result of the intervention. This has greatly improved housestaff satisfaction with the overall process. In conclusion, the project was a great success and met its goals of simplifying a difficult and cumbersome process while increasing user satisfaction.
authors.affiliation: New York Methodist Hospital, USA.
authors.forename: Vahe
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Shahnazarian
authors.affiliation: New York Methodist Hospital, USA.
authors.forename: Parag
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mehta