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O*NET detailed work activityOrder medical diagnostic or clinical tests
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This is an accountable judgment call. Someone has to weigh the full situation and stand behind the decision, and that's you, often with legal or professional responsibility.
Part of Order medical tests or procedures, under the O*NET work activity group Monitoring and Controlling Resources. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (0 AI-ready, 1 AI-assist, 21 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
- Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.
- Administer or order diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
- Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
- Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.
- Order or interpret the results of tests such as laboratory tests and radiographs (x-rays).
- Order or perform diagnostic tests such as skin pricks and intradermal, patch, or delayed hypersensitivity tests.
- Order and interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening, to detect prostate cancer.
- Recommend diagnostic tests based on patients' histories and physical examination findings.
- Order or interpret results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood or cerebrospinal fluid.
- Perform, order, or interpret the results of diagnostic or clinical tests.
- Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests, such as complete blood counts (CBCs), electrocardiograms (EKGs), and radiographs (x-rays).
- Order laboratory tests, x-rays, and other diagnostic procedures.
- Conduct or order diagnostic tests such as chest radiographs (x-rays), microbiologic tests, or endocrinologic tests.
- Order diagnostic imaging procedures such as radiographs (x-rays), ultrasounds, mammograms, and bone densitometry tests, or refer patients to other health professionals for these procedures.
- Order, interpret, and evaluate diagnostic tests to identify and assess patient's condition.
- Order, perform, or interpret the results of diagnostic tests and screening procedures based on assessment results, differential diagnoses, and knowledge about age, gender and health status of clients.
- Order or recommend diagnostic procedures, such as stress tests, drug screenings, or urinary tests.
- Order medical tests, such as echocardiograms, electrocardiograms, and angiograms.
- Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.