Customized reference ranges for laboratory values decrease false positive alerts in intensive care unit patients

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Kilickaya, Oguz ^a   Schmickl, Christopher ^a,b   Ahmed, Adil ^a   Pulido, Juan ^a,c   Onigkeit, James ^a,c   Kashani, Kianoush ^c   Gajic, Ognjen ^a,c   Herasevich, Vitaly ^a,c   Pickering, Brian ^a,c  

^a Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CUTOMIZED REFERENCE RANGE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KAPPA STATISTICS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REFERENCE VALUE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRADITIONAL ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD INTERFACE; AGED; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; STANDARDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84907192504     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107930     Document Type: Article

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