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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Biomed Inform. 2016 Oct 5;64:211–221. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2016.10.002

Table 3.

Categories of inappropriate lab-order alerts and their counts.

Category # alerts
Lab test results recently obtained 9
A different lab test might provide more information 3
A different lab test was obtained with same information 1
No clinical indication to order lab (lab would not help medical decision making, condition being alerted upon was resolved/resolving/stable, comfort care, patient death) 68
81 (total)