The timely reporting of critical values, or values that may be life-threatening if immediate action is not taken, is essential to patient care and safety. Although some guidelines exist for critical diagnoses in cytology, not all laboratories have a specific list of diagnoses that should be considered critical, and the very existence of cytology “critical values” has been called into question. Here we propose a pragmatic system for determining cytology critical values and report our laboratory's critical value list, formulated based on a review of the medical literature regarding clinical urgency and other institutions’ cytology critical value lists.
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Onken, A. M., VanderLaan, P. A., & Rosenbaum, M. W. (2021). Critical values in cytology. Journal of the American Society of Cytopathology, 10(4), 341–348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasc.2021.03.003
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