Once-Per-Visit Alerts: A Means to Study Alert Compliance and Reduce Repeat Laboratory Testing

Overutilization of laboratory services is an important unresolved issue in health care. A recent study that appears in the September 2019 issue of Clinical Chemistry attempts to address this issue. That paper titled " Once-Per-Visit Alerts: A Means to Study Alert Compliance and Reduce Repeat Laboratory Testing," examined reorders of a laboratory test within the same admission.