Wikipedia:Choosing Wisely/American Society for Clinical Pathology

The Choosing Wisely campaign will publish information from this society in late February 2013. Before then, there is no available information available except that this society is participating in the campaign and intends to share five ideas which its members have chosen as important for doctors and patients to discuss.

This project shares information from the American Society for Clinical Pathology on Wikipedia.

Articles of interest

Articles relating to ASCP content
article	traffic	pageview count*	example month	example change	sources cited	change summary
American Society for Clinical Pathology	chart	701	21 Nov 12
Bleeding time	chart	11167	January 2013	[1]	5	"The bleeding time test is obsolete and not indicated when other more reliable and less invasive tests for determining coagulation are available."
Calcifediol	chart	4819	January 2013	[2]	1	"(test) indicated in patients with high risk for vitamin D deficiency and when the results of the test would be used as supporting evidence for beginning aggressive therapies"
Clinical pathology	chart	4812	21 Nov 12
Basic metabolic panel	chart	16158	21 Nov 12
Comprehensive metabolic panel	chart	18224	21 Nov 12
Human papillomavirus	chart	186010	January 2013	[3]	2	"Patients with low risk HPV, however, have no indication for HPV testing."
Reference ranges for blood tests	chart	67104	21 Nov 12
SEPT9	chart	260	January 2013	[4]	4	"Testing to detect methylated SEPT9 is not indicated as a first option for colorectal cancer screening"
Surgery	chart	43066	January 2013	[5]	3	"tests including complete blood count, prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, basic metabolic panel, and urinalysis should not be done unless the results of these tests can help evaluate surgical risk"

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References

American Society for Clinical Pathology, "Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question", Choosing Wisely: an initiative of the ABIM Foundation, American Society for Clinical Pathology, retrieved August 1, 2013, which cites

1. • Sattar, N.; Welsh, P.; Panarelli, M.; Forouhi, N. G. (2012). "Increasing requests for vitamin D measurement: Costly, confusing, and without credibility". The Lancet. 379 (9811): 95–96. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(11)61816-3. PMID 22243814.
   • Bilinski, K. L.; Boyages, S. C. (2012). "The rising cost of vitamin D testing in Australia: Time to establish guidelines for testing". The Medical Journal of Australia. 197 (2): 90. doi:10.5694/mja12.10561. PMID 22794049.
   • Lu, Chuanyi M. (May 2012). "Pathology consultation on vitamin D testing: Clinical indications for 25(OH) vitamin D measurement [Letter to the editor]". American Journal Clinical Pathology (137). American Society for Clinical Pathology: 831–832., which cites
     • Arya, S. C.; Agarwal, N. (2012). "Pathology Consultation on Vitamin D Testing: Clinical Indications for 25(OH) Vitamin D Measurement". American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 137 (5): 832. doi:10.1309/AJCP2GP0GHKQRCOE. PMID 22523224.
   • Holick, M. F.; Binkley, N. C.; Bischoff-Ferrari, H. A.; Gordon, C. M.; Hanley, D. A.; Heaney, R. P.; Murad, M. H.; Weaver, C. M. (2011). "Evaluation, Treatment, and Prevention of Vitamin D Deficiency: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline". Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 96 (7): 1911–1930. doi:10.1210/jc.2011-0385. PMID 21646368.
2. • Lee, J. W. Y.; Berkowitz, Z.; Saraiya, M. (2011). "Low-Risk Human Papillomavirus Testing and Other Nonrecommended Human Papillomavirus Testing Practices Among U.S. Health Care Providers". Obstetrics & Gynecology. 118 (1): 4–13. doi:10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182210034. PMID 21691157.
   • Saslow, D.; Solomon, D.; Lawson, H. W.; Killackey, M.; Kulasingam, S. L.; Cain, J.; Garcia, F. A. R.; Moriarty, A. T.; Waxman, A. G.; Wilbur, D. C.; Wentzensen, N.; Downs, L. S.; Spitzer, M.; Moscicki, A. B.; Franco, E. L.; Stoler, M. H.; Schiffman, M.; Castle, P. E.; Myers, E. R. (2012). "American Cancer Society, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, and American Society for Clinical Pathology screening guidelines for the prevention and early detection of cervical cancer". CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. 62 (3): 147–72. doi:10.3322/caac.21139. PMC 3801360. PMID 22422631.
   • Zhao, C.; Chen, X.; Onisko, A.; Kanbour, A.; Austin, R. M. (2011). "Follow-up outcomes for a large cohort of US women with negative imaged liquid-based cytology findings and positive high risk human papillomavirus test results". Gynecologic Oncology. 122 (2): 291–296. doi:10.1016/j.ygyno.2011.04.037. PMID 21601911.
   • American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (2009), Descriptions of New FDA-approved HPV DNA Tests, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology, retrieved 23 October 2013 {{citation}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
3. • Keay, L.; Lindsley, K.; Tielsch, J.; Katz, J.; Schein, O. (2009). Keay, Lisa (ed.). "Routine preoperative medical testing for cataract surgery". The Cochrane Library (2): CD007293. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD007293.pub2. PMID 19370681.
   • Katz, R. I.; Dexter, F.; Rosenfeld, K.; Wolfe, L.; Redmond, V.; Agarwal, D.; Salik, I.; Goldsteen, K.; Goodman, M.; Glass, P. S. A. (2011). "Survey Study of Anesthesiologistsʼ and Surgeonsʼ Ordering of Unnecessary Preoperative Laboratory Tests". Anesthesia & Analgesia. 112 (1): 207–212. doi:10.1213/ANE.0b013e31820034f0. PMID 21081771.
   • Munro, J.; Booth, A.; Nicholl, J. (1997). "Routine preoperative testing: A systematic review of the evidence". Health technology assessment (Winchester, England). 1 (12): i–iv, 1–62. PMID 9483155.
   • Reynolds, T. M.; National Institute for Health Clinical Excellence; Clinical Scince Reviews Committee of the Association for Clinical Biochemistry (2006). "National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines on preoperative tests: The use of routine preoperative tests for elective surgery". Annals of Clinical Biochemistry. 43 (Pt 1): 13–16. doi:10.1258/000456306775141623. PMID 16390604.
   • Capdenat Saint-Martin, E.; Michel, P.; Raymond, J. M.; Iskandar, H.; Chevalier, C.; Petitpierre, M. N.; Daubech, L.; Amouretti, M.; Maurette, P. (1998). "Description of local adaptation of national guidelines and of active feedback for rationalising preoperative screening in patients at low risk from anaesthetics in a French university hospital". Quality in health care : QHC. 7 (1): 5–11. doi:10.1136/qshc.7.1.5. PMC 2483578. PMID 10178152.
4. • Church, T. R.; Wandell, M.; Lofton–Day, C.; Mongin, S.; Blumenstein, B. A.; Allen, J. I.; Roesch, T.; Snover, D.; Day, R.; Ransohoff, D. F.; Poordad, F.; Lawitz, E. J.; McCone, J.; Shiffman, M. L.; Galler, G. W.; Lee, W. M.; Reindollar, R.; King, J. W.; Kwo, P. Y.; Ghalib, R. H.; Freilich, B.; Nyberg, L. M.; Zeuzem, S.; Poynard, T.; Vock, D. M.; Pieper, K. S.; Patel, K.; Tillmann, H. L.; Noviello, S.; Koury, K. (2010). "Prospective Clinical Validation of an Assay for Methylated SEPT9 DNA in Human Plasma as a Colorectal Cancer Screening Tool in Average Risk Men and Women ≥50 Years". Gastroenterology. 139 (1): 120–129.e18. doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2010.05.068.
   • Ahlquist, D. A.; Taylor, W. R.; Mahoney, D. W.; Zou, H.; Domanico, M.; Thibodeau, S. N.; Boardman, L. A.; Berger, B. M.; Lidgard, G. P. (2012). "The Stool DNA Test is More Accurate Than the Plasma Septin 9 Test in Detecting Colorectal Neoplasia". Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology. 10 (3): 272–277.e1. doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2011.10.008. PMID 22019796.
5. • Lehman, C. M.; Blaylock, R. C.; Alexander, D. P.; Rodgers, G. M. (2001). "Discontinuation of the bleeding time test without detectable adverse clinical impact". Clinical chemistry. 47 (7): 1204–1211. PMID 11427450.
   • Peterson, P.; Hayes, T. E.; Arkin, C. F.; Bovill, E. G.; Fairweather, R. B.; Rock Jr, W. A.; Triplett, D. A.; Brandt, J. T. (1998). "The preoperative bleeding time test lacks clinical benefit: College of American Pathologists' and American Society of Clinical Pathologists' position article". Archives of Surgery. 133 (2): 134–139. doi:10.1001/archsurg.133.2.134. PMID 9484723.
   • Lind, S. E. (1991). "The bleeding time does not predict surgical bleeding". Blood. 77 (12): 2547–2552. PMID 2043759.

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