整合高价值护理和环境可持续性,减少居民不必要的实验室测试:一个干预试点
Peter Trinh1, Joshua E Lewis2, Julie Fiskio3
1Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. peter.trinh1@gmail.com.
Journal of general internal medicine
|August 5, 2025
概括
结合高价值护理和环境可持续性的干预措施减少了住院医生的例行实验室检测和静脉穿刺. 这种方法成功地降低了与医疗保健相关的碳足迹.
科学领域:
- 医学教育 医学教育
- 医疗保健的可持续性 医疗保健的可持续性
- 改善临床实践的改善
背景情况:
- 稳定住院患者的常规实验室检测构成低价值护理,并对医疗保健的碳足迹做出了重大贡献.
- 美国医疗保健系统的温室气体排放量将其列为全球排放量最高的国家之一.
- 将高价值护理原则与环境可持续性相结合,为减少不必要的实验室测试和减少碳排放提供了一个新的策略.
研究的目的:
- 评估一项融合环境可持续性和高价值护理概念的干预措施对住院医生的实验室订购实践的影响.
- 评估这种综合方法在改变医生对实验室测试利用行为的有效性.
主要方法:
- 一项为期6个月的试点研究,采用并发控制与干预设计.
- 一个城市学术三级医疗中心的两支内部医学团队参与了这项研究,其中的医生和住院医生组成一致.
- 干预包括关于测试对环境的影响的教育视频,每日基于团队的实验室订单审查和提醒电子邮件,以及对居民的定量调查.
主要成果:
- 与对照组相比,干预组每天平均每名患者的实验室 (3.62比3.91) 和每名患者每天的静脉穿刺 (1.32比1.39) 在统计学上显著减少.
- 据估计,节省了81公斤的二氧化碳 (CO2) 排放量.
- 住院人员每周或每天多次评估临床实验室指示的比例显著增加,从介入前的47.8%增加到介入后的86.9%.
结论:
- 整合高价值护理和环境可持续性的干预措施有效地改变了住院医生的实验室订购行为.
- 这种方法导致了实验室测试和静脉穿刺数量的减少,从而减少了碳足迹.
- 该战略提供了一种有价值的方法,以减轻医疗保健系统内的不必要的实验室检测和低价值护理.
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