Mobile Stat Labs

Service Description

Introduction: Laboratory studies are an important part of Emergency Medicine. Laboratory studies should only be ordered in a setting where a specific study combined with the patient’s pretest probability (symptoms, signs, and risk factors), will give a post-test probability of a disease process that will change the management of the patient. Statistics, likelihood ratio and Bayesian theorem are out of scope of this current discussion with a focus on indications to order, interpretation of, and costs of common emergency department tests. The selection of the appropriate test for a patient requires consideration of a number of factors including cost, assay performance and epidemiology.