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The two efficiency measures are:
• Outpatients who got cardiac imaging stress tests before low-risk outpatient surgery
• Outpatients with brain CT scans who got a sinus CT scan at the same time
The lower the percentage or number of patients, the better. To read the two news measures in more detail, click here.
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