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Medical Tests Often Not Checked When Ordered on Discharge Day

On Behalf of Britcher Leone, LLC | Aug 18, 2012 | Medical Tests

Medical tests ordered on the day of hospital discharge have a high risk of not being followed up on by the ordering physician, reports Mei-Sing Ong, PhD in a research letter in the Archives of Internal Medicine on August 13th. Of 662,858 tests ordered for 6736...

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