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“Failure to report abnormal test results can lead to serious, even lethal consequences for the patient,” says study leader Lawrence Casalino. “The good news is that physicians who use a simple set of systematic processes to deal with test results can greatly lessen their error rates.”
CORNELL (US)—A new analysis shows that physicians failed to report clinically significant abnormal test results to patients—or to document that they had informed them—in one out of every 14 cases of abnormal results. Continue…
