An analysis of clinical consultation activities in clinical pathology: who requests help and why

To examine the distribution of callers who made consultation requests and to identify associations between caller categories and consultation topics. Review of prospectively collected database of consultations. Direct care personnel made more consultation requests than non-direct care personnel. Con...

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Published inAmerican journal of clinical pathology Vol. 142; no. 3; pp. 286 - 291
Main Authors Schmidt, Robert L, Panlener, Jeanne, Hussong, Jerry W
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Oxford University Press 01.09.2014
Subjects
Databases, Factual
Health Personnel
Humans
Pathology, Clinical
Referral and Consultation
Clinical pathology
Consultation
Service design
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Summary:To examine the distribution of callers who made consultation requests and to identify associations between caller categories and consultation topics. Review of prospectively collected database of consultations. Direct care personnel made more consultation requests than non-direct care personnel. Consultation topics varied by caller type. Direct care personnel requested more consultations on test interpretation and few consultations on test selection than laboratory personnel. Differences in consultation requests by primary care physicians and specialists were significant. At our laboratory, consultation requests primarily originate from primary care physicians. Consultation requests vary by caller type.
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ISSN:0002-9173
1943-7722
DOI:10.1309/AJCP88PPUTFDRACC