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A Study Of Critical Value Notification In The Outpatient Setting: The Relationship Between Physician Response And Patient Outcomes, Kristie Renee Finney
A Study Of Critical Value Notification In The Outpatient Setting: The Relationship Between Physician Response And Patient Outcomes, Kristie Renee Finney
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Critical values are laboratory values that represent a life-threatening condition for which there is a treatment available. Laboratories make immediate notifications to ordering providers when critical values are identified so that they may quickly act to initiate a treatment for their patient. The majority of laboratories apply the inpatient critical value list to the outpatient setting, although there are many differences between an acutely ill inpatient population and an ambulatory outpatient population. The goal of this study was to determine if providers responded to the critical values in the outpatient setting and to determine if there was a difference in …