A study to look at the validity of the new phonics screening test, undertaken by year 1 pupils in England, has concluded that it is a valid but unnecessary test.
It only takes one doctor to acquiesce and take the easy road and write that prescription, order that unnecessary test or perform that procedure.
Compliance rate confirmed the effect of the alerts: 24% of unnecessary test orders were cancelled in the intervention period.
A similar approach could be used in patients with underlying adrenal or pituitary pathology, limiting unnecessary test and the potential for significant cost savings.
Zaat et al. [ 17] found that by simply changing the application form, the amount of unnecessary test ordering was drastically decreased.
Suboptimal cognitive acts were for instance: not ordering a specific test or ordering an unnecessary test, misinterpreting test results etc. Subsequently, after defining the suboptimal cognitive acts a researcher (LZ) and an internist (AT) described all suboptimal cognitive acts.
