Slightly off your subject, Ray, but why do you check the blood results on all patients who have been discharged without follow up? Seems a pointless exercise to me; we stopped that practise years ago.
I've noticed in recent years that juniors are adding C Reactive Protein to their "routine blood investigations". We check the blood results on all patients who have been discharged without follow up and it is a definite trend. Predictably it doesn't seem to effect the management of cases.
Are others also finding this?
Ray McGlone
Lancaster A&E