Costs and benefits of routine labs in hospital patients: iatrogenic anaemia and undiagnosed acute kidney injury
In both dollar costs and the number of patients with mortality effects, the benefits of randomly skipping labs appear to significantly outweigh the costs, but the costs are not insignificant.
Authors
- Dawson Dean (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9318-7385)
Institutions
- University of Kentucky (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Open Quality
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjoq-2024-002884
- Primary Topic
- Acute Kidney Injury Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- National Institutes of Health
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences