Background: Inpatient phlebotomy-associated-anemia (PAA) has garnered significant attention in recent years, with numerous studies delving into this common and preventable condition’s implications for patient outcomes. During hospitalization, it is estimated that about 18% of patients develop anemia associated with phlebotomy. We evaluated the prevalence and impact of PAA at Grady Memorial, a public safety-net hospital. [...]

Background: The practice of routinely ordering daily labs not based on clinical indication on patients in the hospital is a wasteful clinical practice. Routine daily labs can also lead to patient harm by causing pain and iatrogenic anemia, and can burden laboratory staff resulting in increased lab reporting times. Raising awareness about unnecessary lab orders [...]

Background: Overtreatment or low value care, including overutilization of laboratory testing, has an estimated annual cost of waste of $75.7 to 101.2 billion annually. Providing performance feedback to hospitalists has been shown to be an effective way to encourage the practice of quality improvement focused medicine. There remains limited data regarding implementation of performance feedback [...]