Inpatient Daily Labs
- A multifaceted hospitalist quality improvement intervention: Decreased frequency of common labs
- Residents’ self-report on why they order perceived unnecessary inpatient laboratory tests
ICU Labs
- High-value care in the surgical intensive care unit: effect on ancillary resources.
- Reducing unnecessary blood work in the neurological ICU.
Emergency Department Labs
CK-MB
- Reducing excess cardiac biomarker testing at an academic medical center.
- Financial Impact of a targeted reduction in cardiac enzyme testing at a community hospital
- CK-MB for suspected acute coronary syndrome
- Best Practices for Monitoring Cardiac Troponin in Detecting Myocardial Injury
Clostridium Difficile
- Overdiagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection in the Molecular Test Era
- Inappropriate Clostridium difficile Testing and Consequent Overtreatment and Inaccurate Publicly Reported Metrics.
Folate
Complete Blood Count and Basic Metabolic Panel
Hemoglobin
HITAb
HPV Testing
Thrombophilia
- Clinical adherence to thrombophilia screening guidelines at a major tertiary care hospital.
- Analysis of Thrombophilia Test Ordering Practices at an Academic Center: A Proposal for Appropriate Testing to Reduce Harm and Cost
- Inpatient inherited thrombophilia testing
Urine Testing
- Hematuria as a Marker of Occult Urinary Tract Cancer: Advice for High-Value Care From the American College of Physicians.
- Urinary Fractional Excretion Indices in the Evaluation of Acute Kidney Injury
- Misanalysis of Urinalysis: A Teachable Moment.
Stool Testing
- Diagnosing colorectal cancer and inflammatory bowel disease in primary care: The usefulness of tests for faecal haemoglobin, faecal calprotectin, anaemia and iron deficiency. A prospective study
- Faecal haemoglobin and faecal calprotectin as indicators of bowel disease in patients presenting to primary care with bowel symptoms.
- Is there an added value of faecal calprotectin and haemoglobin in the diagnostic work-up for primary care patients suspected of significant colorectal disease? A cross-sectional diagnostic study.
General