Feasibility and Efficacy Study for a Pre-visit Lab Protocol for Adult Medicine Physicals

Launched by ENDEAVOR HEALTH · Jan 30, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This is a research study about implementing a clinic workflow to encourage pre-visit laboratory testing, such as blood work. Resulting labs is a critical yet time consuming task for primary care clinicians. Ideal and timely management of both normal and abnormal lab results is best done when the patient and clinician are face to face in an office visit. This allows patients to ask questions and clinicians to most efficiently make recommendations, adjust or start medications, or order follow up testing. There is a notable and measurable time commitment to the in-basket burden of sharing lab ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Aged 18 or older.
• • Patients must have had an annual physical/ wellness visit within 30 days of completing the survey.
• • Patient/ providers willing to complete the survey.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • • Participants younger than 18 years of age.