Our reports carry a 9 line guide to interpretation, which I developed to aid
interpretation. My intention was to alert staff to interference, sensitivity
and specificity, pitfalls in interpretation as much as one can do! etc.
However, I had a phone call from a patient, who thought the Guide was a
comment on her individual report. I feel we would have to rethink comments,
guides to interpretation and even reference ranges if results go to
patients. Specific areas like warfarin clinics are easier, in that the
patient becomes educated in the field, but the scope of biochemical analytes
is extremely wide.
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Dr. Helen Grimes, Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry, UCH, Galway, Ireland
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