Meeting
Abstract Number: 373
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: The ABIM’s Choosing Wisely campaign targets daily phlebotomy in medical inpatients as an area of potential wasteful care. Unnecessary phlebotomy increases labor and costs while negatively impacting patient’s through hospital-acquired anemia, intravenous access issues, and false-positive results. While previous interventions have attempted to reduce overall labs ordered, few studies have examined educational attempts to reduce unnecessary lab […]