Laboratories Respond Differently to the Same Clinical Request
- 1 March 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Annals of Clinical Biochemistry: International Journal of Laboratory Medicine
- Vol. 26 (2) , 119-121
- https://doi.org/10.1177/000456328902600204
Abstract
A survey of 19 clinical chemistry laboratories, undertaken to determine what tests would normally be done in response to a number of common clinical requests (e.g. ‘plasma electrolytes please’), revealed wide variations in test patterns. It is suggested that laboratories must bear some of the responsibility for unnecessary testing, and that new strategies are needed to persuade laboratories to adopt more cost-effective test patterns.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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