This program’s overall objective is to inform participants about cost-effective, diagnostically efficient test ordering strategies for evaluation of prolonged screening clotting time tests (PT, APTT), screening and esoteric testing for the patient with bleeding symptoms, lupus anticoagulant testing, laboratory evaluation of thrombophilia and thrombotic microangiopathy, and pediatric coagulation testing. Using test ordering algorithms based on data derived from the Mayo Clinic Special Coagulation Laboratory practice and the literature, we will illustrate how costly and unnecessary biochemical, phenotypic and genetic testing can be avoided for the participants’ practices while enhancing highest quality medical care.

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Mayo Clinic College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.