Further to this..
As suggested by Tim Reynolds
If anyone else would like to take place in
a quick survey to have a look at the numbers.. please send me the following;
Number of cholesterol tests a year (or a
month if that’s the only figure you can get hold of easily)
Number of lipid profiles a year (or a
month if that’s the only figure you can get hold of easily)
The size of the population your hospital
serves
I shall collate (keeping confidential) to
see if we can come up with a good average figure..
Thanks
Katy
From: Heaney,
Katy
Sent: 10 November 2009 13:48
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Subject: How many Cholesterol
tests done a year?
Dear mailbase brain..
Does anybody know – with any degree
of certainty how many cholesterol or lipid profile tests are done in the
My simple persons way of considering the
problem was to get the numbers for my own hospital – and given I know the
size of the population my hospital serves – I could calculate up how many
might be done for the entire population of the
Anyone got a better suggestion? Or just
know the answer?
Thanks
Katy
Katy Heaney
Principal Biochemist
Barnet and Chase farm Hospitals NHS Trust
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