Best practice in primary care pathology: review 8

This eighth best practice review examines four series of common primary care questions in laboratory medicine: (i) sodium abnormalities; (ii) faecal occult blood testing; (iii) warfarin management; and (iv) sputum cytology in diagnosis of bronchopulmonary malignancy. The review is presented in quest...

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Published in:Journal of Clinical Pathology 2007-07, Vol.60 (7), p.740-748
Main Authors: Smellie, W S A, Hampton, K K, Bowlees, R, Martin, S C, Shaw, N, Hoffman, J, Ng, J P, Mackenzie, S M, van Heyningen, C
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anticoagulants - administration & dosage
Best practice
Biological and medical sciences
Cellular biology
Diabetes
Diuretics
Drug Monitoring - methods
Evidence-Based Medicine
Humans
Hypernatremia - diagnosis
Hyponatremia - diagnosis
Institutionalization
inter-disciplinary
Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects)
Laboratories
Lithium
Lung cancer
Lung Neoplasms - diagnosis
Medical sciences
Mortality
Occult Blood
Pathology
Pathology, Clinical - methods
Pathology. Cytology. Biochemistry. Spectrometry. Miscellaneous investigative techniques
Population
Potassium
Primary care
Primary Health Care - methods
Review
Sodium
Sodium - blood
Sputum - cytology
Urine
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Summary:This eighth best practice review examines four series of common primary care questions in laboratory medicine: (i) sodium abnormalities; (ii) faecal occult blood testing; (iii) warfarin management; and (iv) sputum cytology in diagnosis of bronchopulmonary malignancy. The review is presented in question–answer format, referenced for each question series. The recommendations represent a précis of guidance found using a standardised literature search of national and international guidance notes, consensus statements, health policy documents and evidence-based medicine reviews, supplemented by Medline Embase searches to identify relevant primary research documents. They are not standards but form a guide to be set in the clinical context. Most are consensus rather than evidence-based. They will be updated periodically to take account of new information.
ISSN:0021-9746
1472-4146
DOI:10.1136/jcp.2006.044719