Lab monitoring tests not always ordered per recommendations
Thursday, June 26, 2014 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Why does one physician in a walk-in practice order laboratory monitoring tests for patients more often than a colleague working down the hallway? Which factors influence the use of these important tests? Clues to these questions lie in the age and general health of the patient, and whether the doctor is a specialist or not, says the lead author of a study.