Five routine tests provide limited clinical value, and evidence-based alternatives can better guide diagnosis, risk for ...

In medicine, a person’s blood-test results are compared with the average range in a population. But results are highly individual and tightly regulated around a person’s own stable values. Changes to ...

An evaluation of the added value of risk markers derived from ambulatory laboratory tests in the prediction of healthcare costs and identification of high-risk patients. Objectives: This exploratory ...

Hundreds of alcohol breath tests thought to have been inaccurate due to data entry errors are valid after all, officials from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Bruce Japsen writes about healthcare business and policy. UnitedHealth Group said it is bringing value-based models to lab testing ...

The properties of the blood and the ease of its retrieval make it a useful source for doctors to analyze to measure specific features of homeostasis within patients. This allows for accurate diagnosis ...

As healthcare organizations face greater demand for streamlined services and delivering value-based care, effective partnerships between care entities have become essential. Twenty-five years ago, ...

Heart attack despite a healthy diet? Stroke without high blood pressure? The reason might lie in the blood—and few people know about it. Lipoprotein(a) is a value that is genetically determined and ...

The Minnesota BCA said it has verified that the breath test results involving the DataMaster instrument in DWI testing are accurate.

The Minnesota BCA verified the accuracy of breath test results after correcting errors from incorrectly inputted data, ...