The orthogonal test design can make the comprehensive and superfluous test simplified to a few tests and evaluate the comprehensive test [25, 26].
Sincere and powerful fear of medical malpractice claims may lead to superfluous testing and controlling of more parameters than medically indicated, in order to minimize legal risks.
Developing and adopting better standards of care can ameliorate the vicious cycle we find ourselves in now, in which superfluous testing can result in iatrogenic anemia that may necessitate subsequent RBC transfusion.
The observed rates of false superfluous CD4 tests were below the preset probability level (P), in particular for the low target threshold of 200×106/L (Table 3).
But he and a collaborator soon realized that Facebook might render personality tests superfluous: Instead of asking if someone liked poetry, you could just see if they "liked" Poetry Magazine.
For example, RST can be used to highlight non-essential prognostic factors in a particular diagnosis, thus helping to avoid redundant, superfluous or costly tests [ 34– 34].
The results in Figures 6 and 8 also show that there was generally little difference between the three mappings with large (4 and 5) intervals and these are therefore superfluous for this test.
Furthermore, frank hypocortisolaemia, implying that basal C production is impaired, would render dynamic testing superfluous.
Other tests are superfluous for other reasons.
We found that nearly 90percentt of the patients received at least one unnecessary test and that, overall, nearly one-third of all the tests were superfluous.
A UK study of aluminium testing in dialysis patients queried whether such testing was superfluous, [ 20] although the dialysis patients in that study were not taking any aluminium-based binders and in that situation aluminium testing of the dialysis water supply only could be argued to be an acceptable minimum safety requirement.
