Diagnostic Procedure Tests are Group Tests which define secondary diagnostic procedures.

 

Special “diagnostic procedure” tests can now be used to represent secondary procedures that are launched from within a main diagnostic procedure. Simply define a test for each of the expected outcomes of the secondary diagnostic procedure and then group them all into a single test. Next, on the Test Interpretation panel for that test, select “Diagnostic Procedure” as the group type:

 

 

Diagnostic procedure test can be defined as:

Linked – associated with another study that represents where diagnostics pick up after that procedure.

Unlinked – additional diagnostics are calculated in the same diagnostic study and then exported as separate diagnostic procedures.