The implementation of a visual aid in an electronic health record ordering system resulted in a significant reduction in duplicate orders for both laboratory and radiology tests.
Results of a study, involving emergency department clinicians at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, were published Monday in the journal JAMA Network Open.
“The introduction of a visual aid was associated with a 49 percent reduction in unintentional duplicate orders for laboratory tests and a 40 percent reduction in unintentional duplicate orders for radiology tests,” concludes the study.
