CDS only added 24 seconds to ordering clinicians' workflows and rarely led to these individuals changing their radiology request, experts wrote in JACR. 

NCDR report finds hospitals are seeing improvements but are still struggling to reach pre-COVID treatment thresholds years after pandemic precautions upended longstanding processes.

Few level 1 trauma centers employ such a position, typically tasked with fielding phone calls from referrers, triaging requests to residents and relaying critical results. 

Despite the marked increase, there was no corresponding uptick in either positive PE readings or pregnancies, experts detailed. 

The findings are derived from an analysis of fee-for-service Medicare data recorded across nearly 600 U.S. health systems. 

Hospital patients who test positive for Clostridioides difficile immediately upon admission but show no symptoms are highly unlikely to spread the germ to other inpatients.

Nearly 8 in 10 physicians might balk before seeking mental healthcare due to perceptions of stigma around doctors admitting they need that kind of help.   

Nonphysician practitioners and ED residents also ordered a significantly greater proportion of such exams, experts detailed in JACR.