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Efficiency over thoroughness in laboratory testing decision making in primary care: findings from a realist review

Claire Duddy and Geoff Wong
BJGP Open 2021; 5 (2): bjgpopen20X101146. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101146
Claire Duddy
1 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
BA (Hons), MA, AFHEA
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1 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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vol. 5 no. 2 bjgpopen20X101146
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https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgpopen20X101146
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33293413

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  • Received July 6, 2020
  • Accepted August 13, 2020
  • Published online April 26, 2021.

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  1. Claire Duddy, BA (Hons), MA, AFHEA1,* and
  2. Geoff Wong, MA, MBBS, MD (Res), MRCGP, FHEA1
  1. 1 Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Claire Duddy, claire.duddy{at}phc.ox.ac.uk
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  • realist review
  • realist synthesis
  • clinical laboratory techniques
  • primary health care
  • practice patterns, physicians
  • clinical decision making
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