Over-utilisation of pathology requests can incur unnecessary costs and be detrimental to patient care. The choosing wisely campaign has helped to reduce the use of tests with limited or no value. This report describes the estimated benefits and costs of implementing a triage process of infectious serology requests in a single mixed hospital and community laboratory. Data analysis of triaging of send away infectious serology was conducted from 1 November 2016 to 31 October 2017. A total of 618 tests were triaged over a 1-year period. Of these 379 (61.3%) were declined. The total gross savings was $45,066. The total cost for implementing this change was estimated to be $4220 per year. The total saving was $40,846.37. There was significant cost saving secondary to this intervention, with other more difficult to measure tangible benefits including fostering communication between laboratory staff and clinicians.
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