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Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta

The data presented in this article is the provincial vitamin B12 test volume data for Alberta, Canada per month between April 1, 2015 and April 30, 2018. This data set was collected from the three different Alberta Public Laboratories Laboratory Information Systems: Cerner Millennium for Calgary, Su...

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Autores principales: Gill, Pavandeep, Guo, Maggie, Lau, Cheryl K., Naugler, Christopher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104785
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Guo, Maggie
Lau, Cheryl K.
Naugler, Christopher
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description The data presented in this article is the provincial vitamin B12 test volume data for Alberta, Canada per month between April 1, 2015 and April 30, 2018. This data set was collected from the three different Alberta Public Laboratories Laboratory Information Systems: Cerner Millennium for Calgary, Sunquest for Edmonton, and MediTech for the remaining rural zones of Alberta (Bonnyville, Grand Prairie, Camrose, Red Deer, and Medicine Hat). An educational province-wide intervention aimed at reducing redundant testing was implemented on April 11, 2017 in Calgary, Alberta and Edmonton, Alberta and on May 2, 2017 in rural Alberta sites. All vitamin B12 test results in Alberta were appended with the educational comment “A normal test result indicates adequate stores and should not be repeated. However, if specific clinical situations require re-testing, the interval should not be sooner than 1 year.” Provincial monthly test volumes prior to this intervention ranged from 54,182 to 73,522 tests per month and after this intervention ranged from 59,116 to 74,006 tests per month. The total number of vitamin B12 tests ordered over the 37 months in Alberta was 2,444,724; 690,448 tests were ordered in Calgary, 1,029,315 tests were ordered in Edmonton, and 724,961 tests were ordered in rural sites. This data article was submitted as a companion paper to the related research article, “Implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant vitamin B12 testing: a cross-sectional study”[1].
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spelling pubmed-68801222019-11-29 Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta Gill, Pavandeep Guo, Maggie Lau, Cheryl K. Naugler, Christopher Data Brief Medicine and Dentistry The data presented in this article is the provincial vitamin B12 test volume data for Alberta, Canada per month between April 1, 2015 and April 30, 2018. This data set was collected from the three different Alberta Public Laboratories Laboratory Information Systems: Cerner Millennium for Calgary, Sunquest for Edmonton, and MediTech for the remaining rural zones of Alberta (Bonnyville, Grand Prairie, Camrose, Red Deer, and Medicine Hat). An educational province-wide intervention aimed at reducing redundant testing was implemented on April 11, 2017 in Calgary, Alberta and Edmonton, Alberta and on May 2, 2017 in rural Alberta sites. All vitamin B12 test results in Alberta were appended with the educational comment “A normal test result indicates adequate stores and should not be repeated. However, if specific clinical situations require re-testing, the interval should not be sooner than 1 year.” Provincial monthly test volumes prior to this intervention ranged from 54,182 to 73,522 tests per month and after this intervention ranged from 59,116 to 74,006 tests per month. The total number of vitamin B12 tests ordered over the 37 months in Alberta was 2,444,724; 690,448 tests were ordered in Calgary, 1,029,315 tests were ordered in Edmonton, and 724,961 tests were ordered in rural sites. This data article was submitted as a companion paper to the related research article, “Implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant vitamin B12 testing: a cross-sectional study”[1]. Elsevier 2019-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC6880122/ /pubmed/31788514 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104785 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Gill, Pavandeep
Guo, Maggie
Lau, Cheryl K.
Naugler, Christopher
Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title_full Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title_fullStr Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title_full_unstemmed Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title_short Vitamin B12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in Alberta
title_sort vitamin b12 test volume data before and after the implementation of an educational province-wide intervention to reduce redundant testing in alberta
topic Medicine and Dentistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31788514
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104785
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