How to Request a Test: A Clinician's Guide to the Interpretation and Evaluation of Medical Tests

by Tom Boyles

Medical tests consume considerable resources and yet making requests is often left to the most junior members of the team. Medical schools often under prepare junior doctors for these tasks so they tend to request large numbers of tests to make sure 'all bases are covered' by the time a more senior colleague attends to the patient.

Beginning with na ve questions such as 'what is a medical test?' and 'why do we perform tests?', the book also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192866613
• ISBN13: 9780192866615
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.3" x 8.9"