Table 2.

Primary and Secondary Outcomes

Outcome measure	Intervention	Usual care	Adjusted OR* [95% CI]	p value
Documented action – Primary
No. of actionable TPADs (No. in model)	150 (146)	103 (99)
No. of patient-discharges	123	90
No. of discharging attendings	53	44
Documented action–no. (%)	91 (60.7%)	58 (56.3%)	1.07 [0.58, 1.99]	p = 0.82
Documented acknowledgment
No. of actionable TPADs (No. in model)	150 (146)	103 (99)
No. of patient-discharges	123	90
No. of discharging attendings	53	44
Documented acknowledgment–no. (%)	91 (60.7%)	61 (59.2%)	0.98 [0.52, 1.84]	p = 0.95
Hospital readmissions
No. of actionable TPADs	150	103
No. of patient-discharges (No. in model)	123 (119)	90 (86)
No. of discharging attendings	53	44
Patient-discharges with actionable TPADs readmitted at 30-days–no. (%)	28 (22.8%)	28 (31.1%)	0.69 [0.37, 1.28]	p = 0.24
Time to documented action
No. of actionable TPADs (No. in model)	91 (89)	58 (58)
No. of patient-discharges	78	52
No. of discharging attendings	40	32
Median days to documented action [95% CI]a	9 [6.2, 11.8]	14 [10.2, 17.8]	0.64 [0.43, 0.97]	p = 0.04
Time to documented acknowledgment
No. of actionable TPADs (No. in model)	91 (89)	61 (60)
No. of patient-discharges	77	55
No. of discharging attendings	39	34
Median days to documented acknowledgment [95% CI]a	9 [6.5, 11.5]	14 [9.9, 18.1]	0.64 [0.43, 0.98]	p = 0.05

Italic values represent the denominator and numerator for each outcome measure

*Adjusted for clinical service; test type (pathology vs. other); physician type (hospitalist), years employed (≤ 5 yrs); patient Elixhauser score (≤ 5), median LOS (≥ 4 days). Clustered by attending

^aCalculated using median regression with the following covariates: clinical service, test type (pathology vs. other); physician type (hospitalist), years employed (≤5 yrs); patient Elixhauser score (≤ 5), median LOS (≥4 days). Clustered by attending