Healthcare budgets worldwide are facing increasing pressure to reduce costs and improve
efficiency, while maintaining quality. Laboratory testing has not escaped this pressure …

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Background National guidelines suggest the use of natriuretic peptides in suspected heart
failure but there have been no studies comparing assays in primary care. Aim To test and …

Microcytic anaemia is often assumed to indicate iron deficiency, but up to 20-30% of patients
will have another diagnosis, particularly anaemia of chronic inflammation or myelodysplasia …

Mild hypertriglyceridaemia is common in diabetes, but patients with newly presenting or
poorly controlled diabetes may have a quantitatively different syndrome of gross …

Disorders of salt and water balance are extremely common in primary care. In many cases
the cause is apparent and the result is not life threatening, but doctors should be aware of …

Problem: A need exists to reduce inequalities in lipid testing, to provide relevant, individual,
patient based interpretation for users, and to audit lipid lowering in primary care. Design …

One of the difficulties in addressing the large differences in use of laboratory tests1 is to
produce robust protocols, supported by high level evidence, for the use of these tests. A …

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