Identifying Strategies to Reduce Low-Value Preoperative Testing for Low-Risk Procedures: a Qualitative Study of Facilities with High or Recently Improved Levels of Testing.
Alex H S HarrisAndrea K FinlayHildi J HagedornLuisa ManfrediGabrielle JonesRobin N KamalErika D SearsMary HawnDan EisenbergSuzann PershingSeshadri MudumbaiPublished in: Journal of general internal medicine (2023)
We identified a menu of common improvement strategies and specific care delivery innovations that might be helpful for institutions trying to design their own quality improvement programs to reduce low-value preoperative testing given their unique structure, resources, and constraints.