Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base
| dc.contributor.author | Stanfliet, J C | |
| dc.contributor.author | King, J A | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pillay, T S | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-22T11:22:12Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2017-03-22T11:22:12Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-01-07T10:01:04Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Evidence suggests that 3 - 4% of patient encounters in primary health care result in blood tests being requested. There is compelling evidence of significant misuse and poor utilisation of many laboratory tests, which results in an economic burden and other problems including further investigation of false-positive results. Patients have high expectations that blood tests be performed and have little understanding of the limitations of testing. The frequency of test ordering is much higher in the USA and Canada, for example, than in the UK, without any overt difference in the quality of care. There are suggestions that 30 - 50% of tests are unnecessary, and that about 15% of abnormal results are not acted upon. | |
| dc.identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.3500 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Stanfliet, J. C., King, J. A., & Pillay, T. S. (2009). Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base. <i>South African Medical Journal</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24076 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Stanfliet, J C, J A King, and T S Pillay "Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base." <i>South African Medical Journal</i> (2009) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24076 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Stanfliet, J., King, J., & Pillay, T. (2009). Inadequacy of Primary Health Care test request Guidelines – lack of an evidence base. South African Medical Journal, 99(8), 569. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Stanfliet, J C AU - King, J A AU - Pillay, T S AB - Evidence suggests that 3 - 4% of patient encounters in primary health care result in blood tests being requested. There is compelling evidence of significant misuse and poor utilisation of many laboratory tests, which results in an economic burden and other problems including further investigation of false-positive results. Patients have high expectations that blood tests be performed and have little understanding of the limitations of testing. The frequency of test ordering is much higher in the USA and Canada, for example, than in the UK, without any overt difference in the quality of care. There are suggestions that 30 - 50% of tests are unnecessary, and that about 15% of abnormal results are not acted upon. DA - 2009 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - South African Medical Journal LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2009 T1 - Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base TI - Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24076 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24076 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Stanfliet JC, King JA, Pillay TS. Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base. South African Medical Journal. 2009; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/24076. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | Division of Chemical Pathology | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Health Sciences | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | South African Medical Journal | |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj | |
| dc.title | Inadequacy of primary health care test request guidelines - lack of evidence base | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |