One of the biggest mistakes patients can make is immediately searching abnormal results online. Internet searches often lead ...

Every clinician knows the moment: a patient messages in a panic because their hemoglobin is 11.9 instead of 12.0, or their mean platelet volume (MPV) is 7.4 instead of 7.5. The value is barely outside ...

When it comes to lab tests, interpreting the clinical importance of an out-of-range result depends on how much experience a physician has, suggests research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Run-of-the mill? Middle of the road? Typical? The chance that you are correct is vanishingly small. If you're a clinician, like me, you get a LOT of medical questions. While we've all been asked to ...

Dr. Cedrek McFadden, a board-certified colorectal and general surgeon with over 20 years of clinical experience at Prisma ...

Lab results can be confusing — and sometimes misleading. The way electronic health records flag ‘abnormal’ values often sparks unnecessary worry, even when numbers are only slightly outside the ...

Adding a flag to the EHR to notify physicians when a patient has an abnormal test result for chronic kidney disease may help improve patients’ follow-up care, according to a recent Oakland, ...

After the first 6 months of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) use in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), most very abnormal results newly seen in long-term routine laboratory ...