Hi Bharat,

Our hospital offers a clinical chemistry fellowship. Therefore, either path residents or mainly clinical chemistry fellows will be on call 24/7. Everyone, the medical team and the laboratory stuff can call them with any kinds of questions. Nevertheless, we have a a policy in place that says if send-outs exceed a certain price or maybe 20-30 different lab values exceed a certain threshold the fellows have to be paged for further follow up. Then, the fellow is investigating the case and contacting the medical team to discuss this lab value or unusual case.

I hope this helps.

Thank you,

Thomas


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Patel Bharat (RWG) West Hertfordshire TR <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
How many laboratories discuss out of hours critical results with senior clinical person on call to the out of hours services. Under what circumstances (eg high K 6.9) would such contact take place and how?

How does one deal with OPD critical results when the caring consultant or the on call reg is not contactable?

I try and collate the answers.


Many thanks
Bharat

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