Greetings all -
We are in the process of re-vamping our screening tool and are having a little bit of discussion about labs and time frames and what's considered "too old" for identification of Organ Dysfunction and Inflammatory process during the screening process. When assessing for inflammatory and organ dysfunction how old can a lab be? 4 hours 6 hours 8 hours 12 hours ??? Any opinions would certainly be appreciated - we would like to give our nurses a specific time frame for example "if labs have not been drawn in X amount of time - contact physician for order, etc" if the labs are outdated for diagnosis of organ dysfunction we would like to build obtaining new labs into the tool to help perhaps speed up identification by having best patient data- would like opinions of what's too old from the group. Thanks, Pat Patricia Hunter, RN Clinical Data Analyst Performance Excellence Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines, Iowa 515-643-2206 "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning to dance in the rain!" This electronic mail and any attached documents are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and contain confidential information. If you are not an addressee, or responsible for delivering this email to an addressee, you have received this email in error and are notified that reading, copying, or disclosing this email is prohibited. If you received this email in error, immediately reply to the sender and delete the message completely from your computer system.
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