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Variation in diagnostic test requests and outcomes: a preliminary metric for OpenPathology.net
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Efforts to reduce healthcare costs have led to the development of metrics to identify unwarranted variation in care. Previous work assessing diagnostic tests is limited, despite their substantial contribution to expenditure. We explored C-reactive Protein (CRP) and Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) tests ordered across Oxfordshire NHS General Practices, and the proportion of tests that yielded an abnormal result, and identified practices that had a proportion of abnormal CRP and ESR result...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1038/s41598-018-23263-z
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- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Scientific Reports Journal website
- Volume:
- 8
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 4752
- Publication date:
- 2018-03-19
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-03-06
- DOI:
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2045-2322
- Pmid:
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29556075
- Source identifiers:
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831116
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- Language:
- English
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pubs:831116
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- pubs:831116
- Deposit date:
- 2018-04-25
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- O'Sullivan et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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Note: an erratum exists for this article, originally published and available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26376-7
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