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Routine Individual Feedback on Requests for Diagnostic Tests

open access: yesMedical Decision Making, 1996
The authors assessed the economic consequences of routine individual feedback on test requests provided to 85 family physicians in a region with 187,000 inhabitants. In a retrospective study as part of a quasi-experiment, cost trends in a region where feedback was provided over a seven-year period were compared with cost trends elsewhere in The ...
R. Winkens   +5 more
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Accuracy of routine diagnostic tests used in paracoccidioidomycosis patients at a university hospital.

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 2011
The identification of appropriate laboratory measures to confirm clinical hypotheses is important in routine paracoccidioidomycosis medical care. The clinical records and laboratory reports of 401 paracoccidioidomycosis patients attended at the Tropical Diseases Area, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, from 1974 to 2008 were reviewed.
T. C. Moreto   +5 more
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Routine Diagnostic Tests for Periprosthetic Joint Infection Demonstrate a High False-Negative Rate and Are Influenced by the Infecting Organism

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. American volume, 2018
Background: Current guidelines recommend serum erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) and C-reactive protein (CRP) as the first-line testing for evaluation of suspected periprosthetic joint infection, in addition to synovial white blood-cell (WBC) count ...
M. Kheir   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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