Table 3.

Actions taken by inpatient attending physician or PCP after asked if TPAD result was actionable in surveys

Type of action taken	TPAD result reviewed by:
	Inpatient attending physician (n=55)	PCP (n=47)
Patient notified	9	27
Ambulatory (or inpatient) team member contacted*	34	3
Subspecialist contacted	15	5
Further testing/modified treatment	6	15
Referred to ambulatory clinic or emergency room	1	5
Documentation	3	7
Total no of actions taken	68	62

*This may have included email correspondence. For example, email messages between intervention attending physicians and network PCPs were occasionally observed in an email inbox monitored by research staff when one party selected ‘reply all’ to the initial automated email notification. Examples of types of correspondence observed between these providers include ordering appropriate antimicrobial therapy for positive Helicocbacter pylori stain on a final gastric biopsy pathology specimen and referring a patient with a suspected systemic lupus erythematosus flare to a subspecialist for a highly positive antinuclear antibody.

PCP, primary care physician; TPAD, test pending at discharge.