Heightened consumer interest has been driving demand for vitamin D testing in recent years. However, clinical laboratories should be aware that some providers could be ordering the wrong test to measure levels of the vitamin, in part due to the way that online ordering forms are organized. That was the gist of a paper presented […]
Providers May Be Ordering Inappropriate Vitamin D Tests
Aculabs Inc. discovered that routine and specialized vitamin D testing dramatically increased in 14 years
- By Stephen Beale
- > From the Volume XXXIII, No. 4 - March 23, 2026 Issue
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