Rising trends on folic acid test requests in a middle-income large academic hospital: A low-value care target for improvement.

Clinics (Sao Paulo) · 2025 · PMC12241388 · PMID 40578162

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an increasing trendno p-value reported

Conclusions Folate test ordering is an increasing trend in this large academic hospital, suggestive of non-clinical guided test ordering and low-value testing. status released display-pdf yes is-olf no is-manuscript no is-preprint no is-journal-matter no is-scanned no is-retracted no Received 2024 Jun 24; Revised 2025 May 9; Accepted 2025 Jun 3; Collection date 2025 Jan-Dec.

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a decreasing trendno p-value reported

Hence, one would expect a decreasing trend in its ordering, unlike the present results, with an increasing and unexplained trend in folate test ordering.

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