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There's no code for providing reassurance rather than ordering a test.
NAME WITHHELD I see nothing wrong with your acceding to a patient's request and ordering a test for legal rather than medical purposes.
I do know that some physicians will just order test after test after test because they don't ever want to be accused in front of a jury of not ordering a test.
But since patients are willing to sue physicians for the consequences of not having used it, why would doctors want to spend more time listening if ordering a test is quicker and safer?
Let's say you're sick and you go to your doctor, who makes an educated guess about what's wrong, ordering a test that may or may not provide accurate or timely answers.
We study a clearly defined category of excessive laboratory utilization for nine analytes where inappropriate diagnostic testing is defined in terms of the time interval between tests; that is, ordering a test too soon following the previous order of the same test.
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More than a decade ago, a medical examiner neglected to order a test on a dead patient that investigators now say might have stopped Mr. Cullen.
"If I'd thought it might be seasonal influenza, I would have ordered a test.
The stewards, at their discretion, can also order a test on any horse.
He began to worry that he would make a mistake, forget to order a test.
"I order a test because I want to order a test, not because they do," said Dr. Lawrence Platt, director of the Center for Fetal Medicine and Women's Ultrasound in Los Angeles.
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