Missing Pathology Tests

Background

Australian pathology providers vary in their naming of tests that are reported back to GP's on various items.

For Example test names for MeaslesIgG can appear with

  1. MEASLES ANTIB...
  2. MEASLES VIRTUAL...
  3. MEASLES IGG
  4. MEASLES SEROLOGY
  5. MEASLES IMMUNE ...
  6. MEAG(S) ...

(...) represents continuing characters DCP uses the first part of the name returned by pathology providers that can uniquely represent the identity of the test

Clinical software is naive with regard to the names of the tests and what they represent in general.

Thus it is largely up to the GP to search for correct names when manually scanning the previous test history to find relevant tests.

DCP attempts to unify the different names for tests. used by pathology companies, into valid unique test groups which can then be used in logic applied to guidelines.

DCP fails to detect pathology tests. ie, Missing Pathology Tests which are shown in clinical software.

Over the years I have copiled names into a database of tests and DCP uses this internally.

However, new names keep popping up and DCP may not recognise a test as returned by your pathology provider into the appropriate group.

To view the name of the test that DCP is not detecting note the name of the test in your clinical software and send the name and which test it should be detected as in DCP to helpemail

Screenshots help too.

Pathologytestlist