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Providence: A change that they made was implementing pop-up questionnaires when a physician ordered an expensive test to determine, in an evidence-based manner, whether the cost of the test was warranted given the patient’s situation.

• What other solutions besides a pop-up questionnaire displaying when a physician orders an expensive test may help reduce unnecessary medical tests?
• How do methods of raising the question of the expense of a medical test or procedure when ordered by physicians affect the concept of physician autonomy in medical decision-making?

Answer 1

When the physician orders an expensive medical test or the medication which are very costly, other than the pop-up methods there can be several other methods, which were mainly understand how the diagnosis help the family, and how the treatment can be happen the test etc. The method which can be best employed will be to have list of things like test or whatever for a condition and it should be on the basis of the test value along with the pros and cons of the test. So, the doctor can easily identify which test will be going to help the person the most and based on the priority he can make a list and can be presented with the patient and family members.

How this question is relevant in the medical field is quite debatable, because the right of the person getting the treatment should include the possible ways for him to understand the problem and what kind of test can be employed by the doctor. So, the doctor should able to discuss with him problems and benefits of each test and make him to facilitate a good decision on the treatment process. It is not the doctor who decides for the patient. So it in that way never be affected the concept of physician autonomy in medical decision making.