Correction: Identifying Ontario geographic regions to assess adults who present to hospital with laboratory-defined conditions: a descriptive study

Canadian Medical Association - Canadian Medical Association …, 2020 - cmajopen.ca
Correction: Identifying Ontario geographic regions to assess adults who present to hospital
with laboratory-defined conditions: Page 1 OPEN E120 CMAJ OPEN, 8(1) © 2020 Joule Inc …

Inappropriate repeats of six common tests in a Canadian city: a population cohort study within a laboratory informatics framework

EK Morgen, C Naugler - American journal of clinical pathology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objectives To identify inappropriate repeats of six common laboratory tests in a population
sample of patients, using highly specific criteria based only on repeat time and test value …

Use of the mean abnormal result rate (MARR) to gauge changes in family physicians' selectivity of laboratory test ordering, 2010-2015

AP Brack, M Guo, I Ma, C Naugler - American Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Objectives The mean abnormal result rate (MARR) has recently been advanced as a metric
of laboratory test appropriateness. We used the MARR metric to examine patterns of change …

LABORATORY INVESTIGATIONS ORDERING PRACTICES AT KCMC CONSULTANT REFERRAL HOSPITAL, KILIMANJARO, TANZANIA FROM JUNE–JULY 2016

WM Gahhu - repository.costech.or.tz
Background Laboratory tests are ordered on a daily basis, even though disease probability
is often very low. Abnormal results, especially mildly abnormal results, can be difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] The NSW pathology atlas of variation: part I—identifying emergency departments with outlying laboratory test–ordering practices

N Wabe, J Thomas, C Scowen, A Eigenstetter… - Annals of Emergency …, 2021 - Elsevier
Study objective Abdominal pain and chest pain are leading reasons for emergency
department (ED) presentations, with laboratory tests frequently ordered to aid the diagnostic …

[HTML][HTML] Audit of level II scans in a tertiary center of a middle-income country (MIC)

R Benjamin, Y Hilda, R Swati, P Annie… - Journal of Family …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Aims: The aim was to audit the diagnostic accuracy in a busy scan room. Settings and
Design: Retrospective cohort in a tertiary center. Methods and Materials: Audit of significant …

[PDF][PDF] More than half of abnormal results from laboratory tests ordered by family physicians could be false-positive

C Naugler, I Ma - Canadian Family Physician, 2018 - cfp.ca
Conclusion Inappropriate laboratory test ordering leads to a higher probability of false-
positive abnormal results. False-positive test results are harmful psychologically and …

Residents' self‐report on why they order perceived unnecessary inpatient laboratory tests

MS Sedrak, MS Patel, JB Ziemba… - Journal of hospital …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Resident physicians routinely order unnecessary inpatient laboratory tests. As hospitalists
face growing pressures to reduce low‐value services, understanding the factors that drive …

Identifying Ontario geographic regions to assess adults who present to hospital with laboratory-defined conditions: a descriptive study

C Iskander, E McArthur, DM Nash… - … Open Access Journal, 2019 - cmajopen.ca
Background: In 2007, an electronic repository called the Ontario Laboratories Information
System (OLIS) was introduced to allow health care providers timely access to laboratory test …

[HTML][HTML] Expert recommendations on frequency of utilization of common laboratory tests in medical inpatients: a Canadian consensus study

A Ambasta, S Pancic, BM Wong, T Lee… - Journal of General …, 2019 - Springer
Background Repetitive inpatient laboratory testing in the face of clinical stability is a marker
of low-value care. However, for commonly encountered clinical scenarios on medical units …