Re: [Gnumed-devel] Re: Lab importing Re: Bootstrap of (test) lab data

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > I have asked my lab data  
> > broker to confirm whether labs may in some cases supply no reference  
> > range information.
>
> Are such non-contextual values even of any clinical use ?

Yes
There are some I just don't know offhand - say the therapeutic range of an 
unfamiliar drug.
Then sometimes the 'normal' values change. Over many years that's happened to 
cholesterol and more recently here to B12.




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