The study also points to the need to define what truly critical values are for newborns and stop extrapolating from "adult" lab values, an archaic, round-about system that is currently the status ...

Researchers asked doctors to define which out-of-range lab values they considered critical enough to require the lab to page them. Under the current system, a lab technician reports the lab ...

Medscape Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Editorial Director David Danar, MD, interviewed George D. Lundberg, MD, about the history of the concept of critical values and his perspective on the past ...