Open AccessProbabilistic Modeling Approach to Reducing Healthcare Costs With Reflex Testing
Author(s) -
Sameer Prakash,
Tyler Hamby,
Van LeungPineda,
Don P. Wilson
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
laboratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.332
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1943-7730
pISSN - 0007-5027
DOI - 10.1093/labmed/lmx049
Subject(s) - health care , probabilistic logic , computer science , risk analysis (engineering) , reliability engineering , business , economics , engineering , artificial intelligence , economic growth
Statistical methods can be utilized to optimize the order for reflex diagnostic testing to attenuate patient and hospital costs without affecting quality of care. Our objective is to demonstrate the method of developing an order for testing and to apply this method to an illustrative example.
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