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Interview question: Hb7.1 or Hb 6.9


Yolandalau

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Dear all,

I have got an interview question:  I repeated a CBC and got two results of Hb 7.1 and Hb 6.9, which one should I report? Hb7.0 is our critical value which mean if below 7.0 we need to call the ward.

Thanks so much!

Regards,

Yolanda

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On 6/29/2018 at 8:20 PM, Yolandalau said:

Dear all,

I have got an interview question:  I repeated a CBC and got two results of Hb 7.1 and Hb 6.9, which one should I report? Hb7.0 is our critical value which mean if below 7.0 we need to call the ward.

Thanks so much!

Regards,

Yolanda

are you allow to average it? 

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Sure why not.  The difference between 6.0, 7.0 and 7.1 is only a variance of about 4% so as far as precision, the three results are pretty much the same clinically.  Practically, that is a really low Hgb either way. 

However, there is the question of the critical (or near-critical) value to report.  My personal preference would be to report (and call) the lower critical value just to make sure someone knows about it right away.

Scott

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