Vitamin D is important for musculoskeletal health. Concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D,
the most commonly measured metabolite, vary markedly around the world and are …

Objective To undertake an assessment of the health, financial and environmental impacts of
a well-recognised example of low-value care; inappropriate vitamin D testing. Design …

Importance Delivering low-value care can lead to unnecessary follow-up services and
associated costs, and such care cascades have not been well examined in common clinical …

Routine vitamin D testing has been increasing owing to patient demand, attention in mass
media, correlational studies connecting vitamin D to various health concerns, and …

Low-value care exposes patients to ineffective, costly, and potentially harmful care. In
endocrinology, low-value care practices are common in the care of patients with highly …

Objective To examine characteristics of beneficiaries, physicians, and their practice sites
associated with greater use of low‐value services (LVS) using LVS measures that reflect …

Background The importance of reducing low-value care (LVC) is increasingly recognized,
but the impact of de-implementation on the patient-clinician relationship is not well …

In order to explore the application of intelligent intravenous drug dispensing robot in clinical
nursing, the efficiency, residual amount, needle pushing, and pulling times, the incidence of …

Introduction: With a well-established role in inflammation and immune function, vitamin D
status has emerged as a potential factor for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) …

Testing for vitamin D deficiency (VDD) has been on the increase due to its association with
several diseases. However, inappropriate testing for VDD, defined as screening for VDD …