On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:08:10AM +1000, Vincent McCauley wrote:

> What action should flow from even critical results depends on the clinical
> context.
> A total CPK (marker of muscle damage) flagged as critically elevated will
> require different responses
> in a patient who has just had an intramuscular injection from that in a
> patient with chest pain.

GNUmed uses two flags to account for that:

technically_abnormal
clinically_relevant


Karsten
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