Jupe D
Royal Hobart Hospital.
Aust Fam Physician. 1996 Mar;25(3):324-9.
Medical practitioners use laboratory testing to define disease states more precisely than is possible by clinical assessment alone. With this expectation it is easy to overemphasise the significance of numerical test results. There are many pitfalls in the interpretation of tests used to assess the body's general response to injury. This article reviews the nature of the response and highlights both the use of the available laboratory tests and some of the difficulties commonly encountered.
医学从业者利用实验室检测来比仅通过临床评估更精确地界定疾病状态。带着这样的期望，很容易过度强调数值检测结果的重要性。在解释用于评估身体对损伤的总体反应的检测时存在许多陷阱。本文回顾了这种反应的本质，并强调了现有实验室检测的用途以及一些常见的困难。
