Erschienen in:
04.06.2018 | Capsule Commentary
Capsule Commentary on Silvestri et al., Impact of Cost Display on Ordering Patterns for Hospital Laboratory and Imaging Services
verfasst von:
Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of General Internal Medicine
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Ausgabe 8/2018
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Excerpt
Silvestri et al. evaluated an economics-based intervention that is relatively innovative in healthcare but would be considered commonsense in other fields—namely, providing buyers (physicians) with information about costs of the services they purchase.
1 Using a pre-post design, they found that displaying costs in the EHR for lab and imaging tests was associated with a decrease in the number of studies ordered for hospitalized patients and a decrease in overall lab and imaging costs. …