Strategies to Reduce Hospital Healthcare Costs by Cutting Down on Unnecessary Tests

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Introduction
Practicum project Topic:
Strategies to cut down hospital
high health care cost by reducing
waste in resources related to
unnecessary test
Three identified thesis paper
related to the topic:
 Use of checklist and clinical
decision support tool to reduce
laboratory use and control cost
(Algaze et al., 2015)
 Real time cost displays by use of
Electronic Health Record to control
lab ordering rate (Horn et al., 2014)
 Reducing unnecessary laboratory
testing using health informatics
application (Khalifa and Khalid,
2014)

First resource: Reducing unnecessary laboratory testing using
health informatics application
The relevance to your
practicum project:
The research article by
Khalifa and Khalid
(2014) is considered
relevant to the
practicum project as
this study also had the
purpose of addressing
the problem of over
utilization of laboratory
testing for years.

Pros and cons
The pros and cons of the
resource are as follows:
Pros:
 The study gave a clear insight
to promote transparency in
test ordering system
 It used user approach to
identify the physicians with
highest ordering index and
thus modified users behavior
regarding test ordering
 It helped in targeting
physicians who over
exceeding test ordering
limits (Khalifa & Khalid, 2014)
Cons:
 Such interventions
need cost and
investment in training
and education for
physicians to be
effective
 Integrating the
evidence in clinical
practice will be difficult
due to changes in
practice pattern (Sligo
et al., 2017)