Prevalence and Predictability of Low-Yield Inpatient Laboratory Diagnostic Tests.

Journal: JAMA network open
PMID: 31509205

Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Laboratory testing is an important target for high-value care initiatives, constituting the highest volume of medical procedures. Prior studies have found that up to half of all inpatient laboratory tests may be medically unnecessary, but a systematic method to identify these unnecessary tests in individual cases is lacking.

Authors

  • Song Xu
    Jinling Clinical Medical College, Nanjing Medical University，Nanjing，Jiangsu 210002，China.
  • Jason Hom
    Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • Santhosh Balasubramanian
    Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  • Lee F Schroeder
    Department of Pathology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor.
  • Nader Najafi
    Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco.
  • Shivaal Roy
    Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
  • Jonathan H Chen
    Stanford Center for Biomedical Informatics Research, Stanford, CA.

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