Description
Evidence Based Medicine has found pathology an easy target. Bandolier (1999;6:3) has a review on how doctors use tests. The authors point out that we spend ??1.6 billion on Laboratory testing in the NHS and that as most doctors do not use the results in an appropriate way why are we bothering? It calls for methods of expressing the accuracy of a test that are understandable by the doc on the Clapham omnibus, relevant to a wide range of clinical situations and patient populations, easy to use in every day practice and instantly available.
