Article: Anger at new rule on patients' blood tests; CHANGES MEAN PEOPLE COULD HAVE TO TRAVEL TO OTHER TOWNS.(News)

Article: Blood clinics to close.
Leamington Spa Courier (Leamington Spa, England);  June 14, 2007 ;     572 words ... ... open longer hours with an appointment-free system for most blood tests. But a different story emerged on Wednesday. NHS Warwickshire ... people can get the right treatment in the right place. Coun Bernard Kirton (Ind, Whitnash), who has campaigned for years against ...

Article: An audit of preoperative blood tests
The Journal of Perioperative Practice;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Purpose: Audit of the use of preoperative blood tests in elective general surgery in a district ... Retrospective audit of preoperative blood tests performed for elective general surgical ... assessment for general surgery have blood tests performed in excess of the NICE guidelines ...

Article: An audit of preoperative blood tests.(CLINICAL ...
Journal of Perioperative Practice;  February 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... respiratory or renal dysfunction. Four blood tests are included in the NICE guidelines ... examines the utilisation of preoperative blood tests in general surgical patients seen within ... and grade of surgery, preoperative blood tests requested and rationale for their request ...

Article: Blood tests axe will hit hundreds; EXCLUSIVE ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 24, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... of people will be hit when community blood tests are scrapped in Coventry next week ... s phlebotomy service, which offers blood tests to patients at 14 different sites across ... regularly, as well as people sent for blood tests by their GPs for diagnostic purposes ...

Article: NEW BLOOD TESTS CAN DETECT AND PREDICT HEART ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  July 13, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... whether it's something else. New tests Blood tests have become an integral part of figuring ... new generation of cardiac-specific blood tests is promising to do even more -- not ... another important factor with cardiac blood tests. Most are easily performed in the ER ...

Article: Blood tests change will hit us both hard; CUTBACK: ...
Coventry Evening Telegraph (England);  January 17, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... are heartbroken at a decision to scrap blood tests at their community health centre. The ... surgery in Remembrance Road for vital blood tests for the past three years. But now cash ... the extra people turning up for their blood tests. PCT director of primary care Peter ...

Article: How blood tests can obscure the diagnosis
The Sunday Telegraph London;  March 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... his fellow doctors seem unaware that blood tests are "prone to interference" and that ... presenting to hospital with chest pain whose blood tests measuring the enzyme released by injury ... received intensive chemotherapy following blood tests that showed a markedly raised level ...