Abnormal Laboratory Results - McGraw-Hill Australia
Abnormal Laboratory Results - McGraw-Hill Australia
Abnormal Laboratory Results - McGraw-Hill Australia
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
Foreword<br />
A bewildering array of laboratory tests is available to today’s health<br />
professionals, and there is more to these tests than ticking a box on a request<br />
form and looking at the normal range of results. To provide more detail about<br />
commonly ordered tests, <strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber runs a series called ‘<strong>Abnormal</strong><br />
<strong>Laboratory</strong> <strong>Results</strong>’. Although this may seem an odd topic for a journal mainly<br />
concerned with drugs, laboratory tests have an important role in therapeutics.<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber first published a booklet on laboratory tests in 1987.<br />
Over the ensuing years more articles appeared in the series, so there was<br />
a need to update the booklet. Compiling and revising all the material was<br />
beyond the resources of <strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber but <strong>McGraw</strong>-<strong>Hill</strong> was able to<br />
help and gave Dr Robert Dunstan the responsibility of updating all of the<br />
articles published since 1978. The result was the first edition of <strong>Abnormal</strong><br />
<strong>Laboratory</strong> <strong>Results</strong>, which appeared in 2001.<br />
By 2006, <strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber had published enough articles on new<br />
topics to warrant a second edition of the book. This was edited by Professor<br />
Geoffrey Kellerman, who not only added the new chapters but also ensured<br />
that the earlier chapters were brought up to date.<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber has published more articles in the <strong>Abnormal</strong><br />
<strong>Laboratory</strong> <strong>Results</strong> series over the past four years. I am pleased that Professor<br />
Kellerman has again agreed to prepare these articles for the third edition of<br />
the book.<br />
This 2011 edition is timely because NPS, the publisher of <strong>Australia</strong>n<br />
Prescriber, has recently established a Quality Diagnostic Referrals program.<br />
This has the aim of improving the use of laboratory tests. <strong>Abnormal</strong><br />
<strong>Laboratory</strong> <strong>Results</strong> will be a perfect complement to these educational<br />
activities.<br />
Dr John S. Dowden<br />
Editor, <strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber<br />
Canberra<br />
www.australianprescriber.com<br />
<strong>Australia</strong>n Prescriber is published by NPS, an independent, not-for-profit organisation<br />
funded by the <strong>Australia</strong>n Government Department of Health and Ageing.
Change language