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Do We Now Know What Inappropriate Laboratory Utilization Is?

Author(s) -

Ronald G. Hauser,

Brian H. Shirts

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

american journal of clinical pathology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.859

H-Index - 128

eISSN - 1943-7722

pISSN - 0002-9173

DOI - 10.1309/ajcpx1hiem4klgnu

Subject(s) - audit , confusion , chart , medical laboratory , government (linguistics) , guideline , test (biology) , quality (philosophy) , quality assurance , computer science , good laboratory practice , risk analysis (engineering) , medicine , business , pathology , psychology , external quality assessment , accounting , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , epistemology , psychoanalysis , biology , paleontology

Many nonpathologists and some pathologists consider utilization review essential to laboratory quality improvement, but (1) confusion surrounding the definition of "appropriate" laboratory utilization, (2) the reliance on manual chart review, and (3) a lack of leadership have contributed to its unstandardized implementation. How the solutions to these barriers have evolved since the 1950s is described.

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