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"Laboratory demand management strategies: An overview"

Inappropriate laboratory test selection in the form of overutilization as well as underutilization, frequently occurs despite available guidelines. There is broad approval among laboratory specialists and clinicians that demand management (DM) strategies are useful tools to avoid this issue. Most of these tools are based on automated algorithms or other types of machine learning. This review summarizes the available DM strategies that may be adopted to local settings. We believe that artificial intelligence (AI) may help to further improve these available tools. (Full article...)

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