What does the clinic see when results arrive?

Results arrive from the laboratory straight onto the order and the patient’s record. Each biomarker is shown with its result, unit and reference range, where the result sits in that range, and the laboratory’s own flag. Each result is compared with the patient’s previous result for the same biomarker.

A result outside the range is marked with a label and a marker, never by colour alone. A test the laboratory could not perform is shown as not performed rather than left blank.