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The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Laboratory Test Volume and Abnormal Rates in Emergency and Outpatient Clinics: A Single-Center Study

2024-05-28

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Physicians ordering excessive tests can cause increased stress for patients and higher costs for the healthcare system. Therefore, the MARR metric was first developed to gauge the appropriateness of testing, showing the proportion of tests ordered that return abnormal results. However, there is a lack of data regarding how the Covid-19 pandemic, which significantly heightene...

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Literature Corpus work: ed528055-db08-501c-b07c-382bfc382931
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4385342/v1

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