No news can be bad news with medical test results

Friday, June 26, 2009 - 17:28 in Health & Medicine

In a study, one of 14 patients with troubling lab results on routine blood and screening tests were not notified. "No news is good news" is what most patients assume when they're waiting to receive test results. But "no news" actually meant "bad news" for one out of 14 patients with troubling labs, according to a study published Monday in the Archives of...

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