Guide to Diagnostic Tests vs Laboratory Decision System
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Guide to Diagnostic Tests
Access evidence-based information on over 450 diagnostic tests, including lab work, imaging, and therapeutic monitoring. This resource helps healthcare professionals quickly find answers to common questions about test selection, interpretation, and patient preparation.
- 450+ diagnostic tests
- Evidence-based recommendations
- Algorithms, tables, and charts
- PubMed links
- Custom notes and highlighting
- Full-text search
- Favorites for bookmarking
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ABOUT GUIDE TO DIAGNOSTIC TESTS Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, provides immediate, evidence-based information on the selection and interpretation of commonly used laboratory and electrocardiographic tests, diagnostic imaging, and therapeutic monitoring. Including more than 450 updated diagnostic tests, this mobile resource is ideal for answering questions encountered daily by physicians, nurses, students, and other healthcare professionals, such as: • Which test is best to diagnose or follow a patient’s condition? • What is the correct interpretation of an abnormal diagnostic test? • How do I collect the appropriate specimen or prepare the patient for testing? • Where can I find more information on this test in the medical literature? FEATURES • 450+ updated laboratory and diagnostic tests • Evidence-based recommendations • New and updated coverage of emerging and re-emerging pathogens and infectious agents • Extensive use of algorithms, tables, and charts • PubMed links directly to journal citations and available articles • Highlight and make custom notes within any entry • Full Text Search – find topics across from any entry • ‘Favorites’ for bookmarking important entries Editors: Diana Nicoll, MD, PhD, MPA; Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD; Stephen J. McPhee, MD Publisher: McGraw Hill Powered by: Unbound Medicine
Laboratory Decision System
This platform helps healthcare providers choose the most relevant lab tests. It uses a proprietary ranking algorithm to guide decisions based on disease, symptoms, and ICD10 codes.
- Lab test management
- Utilization platform
- Proprietary ranking algorithm
- Disease-based test selection
- Symptom-based test selection
- ICD10 code integration
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Laboratory Decision System · LDS Medical Database LDS™ is a testing management and utilization platform that serves as a laboratory decision system. It utilizes Medical Database’s proprietary ranking algorithm and assists healthcare providers in determining the most relevant tests to select based on disease, symptoms and ICD10 codes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Laboratory Decision System at 50% against Guide to Diagnostic Tests's 0%. Laboratory Decision System also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 15.0). Guide to Diagnostic Tests's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (35 vs 4). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Guide to Diagnostic Tests sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Laboratory Decision System asks for nothing beyond the download.
Guide to Diagnostic Tests holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Guide to Diagnostic Tests has 35 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Guide to Diagnostic Tests's written reviews are positive against 50% of Laboratory Decision System's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Guide to Diagnostic Tests | Laboratory Decision System |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (35 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Unbound Medicine, Inc. | Medical Database, Inc. |
Customer experience
Guide to Diagnostic Tests
Laboratory Decision System
In-app purchases
Guide to Diagnostic Tests
- Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests$54.99
Laboratory Decision System
No in-app purchases
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