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- Title
Frequency of Abnormal and Critical Laboratory Results in Older Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Syncope.
- Authors
Moore, Andrew B.; Su, Erica; Weiss, Robert E.; Yagapen, Annick N.; Malveau, Susan E.; Adler, David H.; Bastani, Aveh; Baugh, Christopher W.; Caterino, Jeffrey M.; Clark, Carol L.; Diercks, Deborah B.; Hollander, Judd E.; Nicks, Bret A.; Nishijima, Daniel K.; Shah, Manish N.; Stiffler, Kirk A.; Storrow, Alan B.; Wilber, Scott T.; Sun, Benjamin C.; Hess, Erik P.
- Abstract
The article offers information on a study which analysis frequency of abnormal and critical laboratory results in older patients presenting to the emergency department with syncope. Topics include information on guidelines on the evaluation of syncope that recommend targeted laboratory testing based on history; independence between categorical variables with chisquare or Fisher's exact test; and nonnormal laboratory values and identified critical laboratory values in one in 25 patients.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BASAL metabolism; BLOOD cell count; CHI-squared test; CLINICAL pathology; FISHER exact test; HOSPITAL emergency services; SYNCOPE; SECONDARY analysis; DATA analysis software
- Publication
Academic Emergency Medicine, 2020, Vol 27, Issue 2, p161
- ISSN
1069-6563
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/acem.13906