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- Title
Demand management: an audit of chemical pathology test rejections by an electronic gate-keeping system at an academic hospital in Cape Town.
- Authors
Smit, Ida; Zemlin, Annalise E; Erasmus, Rajiv T
- Abstract
The article presents a study conducted for the estimation of the number of pathology tests rejected by the electronic gate-keeping system (eGK) introduced by the Tygerberg hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. Estimation of the number of tests restored and impact of these rejections on the clinical outcome and cost-saving was also performed by auditing the hospitals.
- Subjects
CAPE Town (South Africa); CLINICAL pathology; COST control in hospitals; HOSPITAL electric equipment; MEDICAL audit
- Publication
Annals of Clinical Biochemistry, 2015, Vol 52, Issue 4, p481
- ISSN
0004-5632
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0004563214567688