Routine hospital laboratory testing is common, and unnecessary tests can harm patients. Multiple professional societies have recommended against routine laboratory testing in hospitalized patients.

Advanced practice health care providers (APP), including nurse practitioners (NP), and physician assistants (PA), increasingly care for hospitalized patients and order tests; registered nurses (RN) may also influence ordering. To our knowledge, no studies have evaluated attitudes of non-physician health care providers toward inpatient laboratory testing.

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