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EYEWITNESS NEWS CALL
12 FOR ACTION.
THERE...
WAITING FOR RESULTS
TEST THAT COULD
OUR LIVES...
AND WE SOMETIMES
THE HARDEST PART.
BUT AS PROBLEM SOLVER
SUSAN HOGAN FOUND --
SOME NEW REGULATIONS
THE WAIT.
A RECENT STUDY FOUND THAT
HEADS AND WAITING DOES
TAKE IT'S TOLL ON OUR HEALTH.
REGULATIONS GO THROUGH,
THE WAIT TIME COULD BE CUT
AFTER UNDERGOING A BIOPSY
DEBBIE PHILLIPS HAD TO WAIT
MORE THAN A WEEK TO GET
HER RESULTS.
Debbie Phillips, Waited for Lab
torturous."
UNDER FEDERAL RULES,
SHARE RESULTS WITHIN 30
DAYS, UNLESS A PATIENT IS
NOTIFIED OF EXTENUATING
CIRCUMSTANCES.
Medical
typically read the same day but
those
results the same day. If you
necessary
very
several
BUT WHAT IF SEVERAL DAYS
BECOMES SEVERAL MONTHS?
OR WHAT IF YOU NEVER HEAR?
A RECENT STUDY FOUND UP TO
DELAYED AS LONG AS 90 DAYS,
OR PATIENTS WERE NEVER
POSSIBLE MALIGNANCIES. NOW,
AND HUMAN SERVICES WANTS
TO MAKE SURE THAT DOESN'T
PROPOSING A RULE CHANGE
WOULD SEND RESULTS
DIRECTLY TO THE PATIENT AS
SOON AS THEY'RE AVAILABLE
Psychologist,
Medicine"There's a big movement
to
give patients access to more and
whole
that can be a fantastic thing."
WAIT TIME.
Elvira V. Lang, MD, FSIR, FSCEH
Medical
School"You don't want to be on a
about what your result is."
BE TECHNICAL AND CONFUSING,
SO THE AMERICAN MEDICAL
DISCLAIMER ATTACHED TO THE
RESULTS, ALONG WITH A
DIRECTIVE TO DISCUSS
TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY
REALLY MEAN. PSYCHOLOGIST
Guy Montgomery, PhD
Psychologist,
want to be very careful that we
send those patients into a
heightened
appropriate."
REVIEW WITH NO DATE SET YET
FOR IT TO TAKE EFFECT.
CAUTIONS PATIENTS NOT TO
LET THE WAITING CONSUME
Guy Montgomery, PhD
Psychologist, Mount Sinai School
of
to
interfering with things that you
want
Length :08AFTER EIGHT LONG
SHOWED SHE NEEDED
IMMEDIATE SURGERY. EVEN
WAITING TO DO
FEDERAL REGULATIONS WOULD
OVERRIDE EXISTING LAWS IN 20
ACCESS TO LABORATORY TEST
RESULTS WITHOUT HAVING
FIRST TO TALK WITH THE
THE TESTS. CURRENTLY
SEVEN STATES PLUS THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND
PUERTO RICO PERMIT LABS TO
TO PATIENTS; SEVEN STATES
PHYSICIAN APPROVAL; 23
STATES ARE SILENT ON THE
MANDATE THAT LABS REPORT
ONLY TO PHYSICIANS
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