Laboratory Tests Ordering Pattern by Medical Residents From a Brazilian University Hospital

Ordering patterns for laboratory and radiology tests by students from different undergraduate medical curricula

BACKGROUND The overuse of laboratory tests and radiology imaging and their possible hazards to patients and the health care system is observed with growing concern in the medical community. With this study the authors wished to determine whether ordering patterns for laboratory and radiology tests by medical students close to their graduation are related to undergraduate training. METHODS We ...

Myelomeningocele: a Brazilian University Hospital experience.

We analyzed 31 children with myelomeningocele born between July 1990 and July 2000. Follow-up median was 24 months (6-68 months). Only 2 mothers had a known etiologic factor (diabetes mellitus). Twelve had the correct prenatal diagnosis. All children were born at term; 23 by cesarean; 13 had rupture of the membrane. Surgical correction had a 4 days median (1 to 44 days). Lumbosacral lesions wer...

Duplicated laboratory tests: a hospital audit.

Rising healthcare costs are unlikely to be sustainable in the current healthcare environment. Reducing costs is a major effort of governments and policymakers (1). One component of these costs is the wide range and overwhelming number of diagnostic tests (2). Laboratory testing of hospitalized patients can be redundant when multiple providers order the same or similar tests for the same patient...

Medical Laboratory Methods and Tests

Medical Laboratory Methods and Tests

The opening chapter on the examination of the urine is particularly full and good, all the chief tests, both qualitative and quantitative, being given. The second chapter, dealing with the examination of the blood, includes the differential leucocyte count, the detection of the presence of the more important blood nara?iif-p<? WirM'^ reaction, etc. With regard to this latter, the form of glass ...