Laboratory defined critical value limits: How do hospital physicians perceive laboratory based critical values?

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 766-770

  Don Wauchope, Andrew C ^a   Chetty, Vasudhevan T ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Clinical chemistry; Critical value; Laboratory management; Patient safety; Physician survey; Telephone limit

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NORMAL VALUE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDIZATION;

CHEMISTRY, CLINICAL; DATA COLLECTION; HOSPITALS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 67349272591     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2009.02.016     Document Type: Article

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