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Excessive diagnostic testing in acute kidney injury

BACKGROUND: The patterns, performance characteristics, and yield of diagnostic tests ordered for the evaluation of acute kidney injury (AKI) have not been rigorously evaluated. METHODS: We characterized the frequency of AKI diagnostic testing for urine, blood, radiology, and pathology tests in all a...

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Autores principales: Leaf, David E., Srivastava, Anand, Zeng, Xiaoxi, McMahon, Gearoid M., Croy, Heather E., Mendu, Mallika L., Kachalia, Allen, Waikar, Sushrut S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4714492/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26772980
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-016-0224-8