Development and implementation of a laboratory monitoring dashboard to reduce treatment gaps in inflammatory bowel disease.

Purpose: Patients receiving biologic therapy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) require routine laboratory monitoring to ensure the safety and efficacy of therapy. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to evaluate the implementation of a dashboard to prevent treatment gaps by prospectively identifying patients with IBD and outdated laboratory results receiving biologics.

Methods: We performed a pre/post analysis of dashboard implementation to assess the number of patients with overdue laboratory work resulting in treatment gaps.