title: The priority test request form: a method for improving communication between the physician and the Emergency Clinical Biochemistry Laboratory.
abstract: Two forms--a priority test request form and a telephone results form--provide improved communication between the physician and the emergency laboratory of the Clinical Biochemistry Department. The priority test request form contains a list of available tests and it allows the physician to tell the laboratory exactly when emergency test results are required. The telephone results form ensures that the physician will receive a report, by telephone, of a test result although it may not be an urgent test. This allows a greater control of work flow, both routine and emergency, through the laboratory.
mesh_terms: D001669:Biochemical Phenomena; D001671:Biochemistry; D002624:Chemistry, Clinical; D003142:Communication; D004630:Emergencies; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013689:Telephone