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The laboratory test utilization management toolbox
Efficiently managing laboratory test utilization requires both ensuring adequate utilization of needed tests in some patients and discouraging superfluous tests in other patients. After the difficult clinical decision is made to define the patients that do and do not need a test, a wealth of interventions are available to the clinician and laboratorian to help guide appropriate utilization. The...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1943-7722,0002-9173
DOI: 10.1309/ajcp4g6uauxcftqf