Is This a critical, panic, alarm, urgent, or markedly abnormal result?

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1569-1570

  White, Graham H ^a,b   Campbell, Craig A ^c,d   Horvath, Andrea R ^c,d  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL LABORATORY RESULT; APPARENT LIFE THREATENING EVENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; FATIGUE; FLIGHT; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LETTER; PANIC; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; REFERENCE VALUE; WELLBEING; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE;

EID: 84925545684     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.227645     Document Type: Letter

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