How to request a test: A clinician's guide to the interpretation and evaluation of medical tests

Medical tests consume considerable resources and yet making requests is often left to the most junior members of the team. Medical schools often under prepare junior doctors for these tasks so they tend to request large numbers of tests to make sure ''all bases are covered'' by the time a more senior colleague attends to the patient.Beginning with naïve questions such as ''what is a medical test?'...