{"id":8807,"date":"2025-09-29T20:48:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:48:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:48:17","slug":"wrong-vitamin-d-test-orders-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wrong-vitamin-d-test-orders-increasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Vitamin D Test Orders Increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Wrong Vitamin D Test Orders Increasing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Medscape Medical News \u2013 September 11, 2025<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key notes:<\/div>\n<div><span> 1. Correct test: 25-OH vitamin D \u2192 measures vitamin D status; use for deficiency.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 2. Wrong test misuse: 1,25-dihydroxy should be ordered only in special cases (CKD, hypercalcemia).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 3. Problem: Inappropriate orders for 1,25-dihydroxy tests are rising, despite guidelines (Choosing Wisely).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 This test does not reflect vitamin D status; in deficiency, its levels may rise, not fall.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 1,25-dihydroxy tests are about double the cost of 25-OH.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Online ordering rose from 12% (2011) \u2192 98% (2023).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 4. Clinical risks:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Wrong test can give false reassurance (normal 1,25 levels despite deficiency).<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 5.<span> <\/span>Impact: Higher costs, delays, and false reassurance in true deficiency \u2192 need better education + Electronic Health Records ( EHR) alerts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/orders-wrong-vitamin-d-test-rising-2025a1000o2b?utm_source=chatgpt.com\">https:\/\/www.medscape.com\/viewarticle\/orders-wrong-vitamin-d-test-rising-2025a1000o2b?utm_source=chatgpt.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wrong Vitamin D Test Orders Increasing Source: Medscape Medical News \u2013 September 11, 2025 Key notes: 1. Correct test: 25-OH vitamin D \u2192 measures vitamin D status; use for deficiency. 2. Wrong test misuse: 1,25-dihydroxy should be ordered only in special cases (CKD, hypercalcemia). 3. Problem: Inappropriate orders for 1,25-dihydroxy tests are rising, despite guidelines [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8808,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8807\/revisions\/8808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}