Don’t prescribe blood exams in children with acute pharyngitis.
Blood tests, including inflammatory markers, are not useful in differentiating bacterial from viral pharyngitis because they can also be increased in some viral infections. Antistreptolysin O titer and anti-DNAse antibodies are useful for the diagnosis of...
Don’t routinely request preoperative laboratory tests in low-risk patients (for minor surgery and for intermediate surgery in ASA 1, ASA 2 patients).
Hematological and biochemical preoperative tests don’t add significant elements to the clinical risk evaluation for minor or intermediate surgery in low-risk patient.
Don’t perform the determination of urine glucose for the monitoring of diabetes mellitus.
Urinary glucose measurement lacks the requested diagnostic sensitivity. The test of choice for monitoring diabetic patients is glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c).
Do not use the determination of 25OH vitamin D (25OH-D) as a routine or screening test to determine the status of hypovitaminosis without a specific clinical indication.
According to documents produced by international and national regulatory bodies the measurement of 25OH-D should be reserved for: – a small number of patients with persistent symptoms of profound asthenia, myalgias, diffuse or localised bone pain suspicious for...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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