Diagnostic and laboratory test ordering in Northern Portuguese Primary Health Care: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT: OBJECTIVES:To characterise the test ordering pattern in Northern Portugal and to investigate the influence of context-related factors, analysing the test ordered at the level of geographical groups of family physicians and at the level of different healthcare organisations. DESIGN:Cross-sectional study. SETTING:Northern Primary Health Care, Portugal. PARTICIPANTS:Records about diagnostic and laboratory tests ordered from 2035 family physicians working at the Northern Regional Health Administration, who served approximately 3.5 million Portuguese patients, in 2014. OUTCOMES:To determine the 20 most ordered diagnostic and laboratory tests in the Northern Regional Health Administration; to identify the presence and extent of variations in the 20 most ordered diagnostic and laboratory tests be

SUBMITTER: Sa L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5695440 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature