Integrating High-Value Care and Environmental Sustainability to Reduce Unnecessary Laboratory Testing by Residents: An Interventional Pilot

Routine lab testing of stable inpatients represents low-value care and contributes toward healthcare’s significant carbon footprint. If the US healthcare system was its own nation, it would be the 13th largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Integrating the concepts of high-value care and environmental sustainability represents a potentially new approach to reduce unnecessary lab testing, low-value care, and carbon emissions.