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What Alert Thresholds Should Be Used to Identify Critical Risk Results: A Systematic Review of the Evidence

Author(s) -

Craig Campbell,

Andrew Georgiou,

Johanna Westbrook,

Andrea R. Horvath

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

clinical chemistry

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.705

H-Index - 218

eISSN - 1530-8561

pISSN - 0009-9147

DOI - 10.1373/clinchem.2016.260638

Subject(s) - medicine , confounding , medline , medical laboratory , evidence based medicine , family medicine , set (abstract data type) , psychology , medical education , alternative medicine , pathology , computer science , political science , law , programming language

Pathology laboratories are required to immediately report results which indicate a patient is at critical risk, but there is little consensus about what values are deemed critical. The aim of this review was to systematically review the literature on alert thresholds for common chemistry and hematology tests in adults and to provide an explicit and ranked source of this evidence.

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