Do Consultants Follow-Up on Tests They Recommend? Insights From an Academic Inpatient Gastrointestinal Consult Service

Inpatient gastrointestinal (GI) issues account for 10 of the top 100 diagnoses billed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; these often lead to GI consultation. While these consults generate testing recommendations, studies have shown high failure to follow-up on tests ordered. Multiple available modalities of testing, as well as tests with inherent delay in results, make GI-recommended studies potentially more vulnerable to missed test follow-up. We sought to identify the volume of tests recommended by an academic GI inpatient consult service and the rates of successful result communication to the patients.

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