Rising trends on folic acid test requests in a middle-income large academic hospital: A low-value care target for improvement
Folate test ordering is an increasing trend in this large academic hospital, suggestive of non-clinical guided test ordering and low-value testing.
Authors
- Luiz Augusto Marcondes Fonseca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3113-8558)
- Leila Antonângelo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8634-5100)
- Fábio Augusto Rodrigues Gonçalves (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0848-2465)
- Nairo Massakazu Sumita (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1909-206X)
- Bruno Adler Maccagnan Pinheiro Besen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3516-9696)
- João Vítor Ziroldo Lopes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7147-7397)
- Arnaldo Lichtenstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7273-6653)
- Evelinda Trindade (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5914-5616)
- G. Fonseca (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0793-4565)
Institutions
- Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Clinics
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinsp.2025.100707
- Primary Topic
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo