The phrase "a repeat test" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a test that is conducted again, often to verify results or for further assessment.
Example: "After the initial results were inconclusive, the doctor recommended a repeat test to ensure accuracy."
Alternatives: "a retest" or "a follow-up test".
Almost half of patients who undergo fecal blood tests to screen for colon and rectal cancer fail to follow up with a repeat test within two years as recommended, a new study reports.
Of patients who underwent an imaging stress test, using a treadmill or stationary bike (or receiving a drug) to make the heart work harder, nearly 44 percent had a repeat test within three years.
Medical guidelines call for a repeat test 10 years after the first negative colonoscopy, but their study found that nearly half of patients with negative colonoscopies had another in less than seven years, often within three or five.
Of the 11,110 who had the so-called fecal occult blood test during an initial observation period, nearly half — 46.8 percent — had neither a repeat test nor any other form of follow-up colorectal cancer screening.
Patients would be less likely to have a repeat test ordered if their physicians did not suspect disease progression.
To test the reliability of the protocol, a repeat test was performed on ten randomly selected subjects under identical laboratory conditions and daytime to avoid circadian variance.
N1 (novice) subjects had 8-weeks of RR training, listened to a 20-minute RR-eliciting CD daily and returned to the GCRC for a repeat testing session (hereafter classified as the N2 group).
The 502 remaining women (73.4%) were advised have a repeat testing after a year on a sample collected by their general practitioner, and 287 (57.2%) complied.
A repeat testing is, therefore, generally recommended for specimens with low positivity values before transferring a final laboratory report to the clinical doctor.
Ten patients had a repeated test for antibodies taken during convalescence.
In this article, we considered a test as abnormal when it was confirmed in a repeated test.
