From "panic" to "critical" values: Which path toward harmonization?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2069-2071

  Piva, Elisa ^a   Plebani, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONSENSUS; CRITICAL VALUE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LABORATORY TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PANIC VALUE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84886646915     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2013-0459     Document Type: Editorial

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