Frequency of Abnormal and Critical Laboratory Results in Older Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Syncope.
- Resource Type
- Article
- 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.
- Source
- Academic Emergency Medicine; Feb2020, Vol. 27 Issue 2, p161-164, 4p
- Subject
- BASAL metabolism
BLOOD cell count
CHI-squared test
CLINICAL pathology
FISHER exact test
HOSPITAL emergency services
SYNCOPE
SECONDARY analysis
DATA analysis software
- Language
- ISSN
- 10696563
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.