Journal article
Practice variation in the use of tests in UK primary care: a retrospective analysis of 16 million tests performed over 3.3 million patient years in 2015/16
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Background The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is currently subject to unprecedented financial strain. The identification of unnecessary healthcare resource use has been suggested to reduce spending. However, there is little very research quantifying wasteful test use, despite the £3 billion annual expenditure. Geographical variation has been suggested as one metric in which to quantify inappropriate use. We set out to identify tests ordered from UK primary care that are s... Expand abstract
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Medicine Journal website
- Volume:
- 229
- Issue:
- 16
- Publication date:
- 2018-12-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-11-12
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1741-7015
- Pmid:
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30567539
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- English
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pubs:954686
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uuid:4b0db57f-06f0-4273-991f-1a40c19b22ef
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- pubs:954686
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954686
- Deposit date:
- 2019-01-09
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- O'Sullivan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise state
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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