title: Doing better with critical test results.
abstract: Health care should achieve the goals that no critical test result is lost and that all such results are managed with a speed appropriate to their urgency.
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: Lucian L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Leape
mesh_terms: D003142:Communication; D003955:Diagnostic Tests, Routine; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States