| DESCRIPTION |
An urgency status is defined as the priority given to each laboratory
These urgencies are not selectable by the user. Also WKL- prevents non-
lab users from seeing these tests. These urgencies are used to calculate
LMIP data only.
These urgencies begin with internal entry numbers of >49 and are
assigned by the verification process for LMIP data calculation.
test, or how quickly that test must be performed by laboratory personnel,
based on site-specific criteria. This file contains eight pre-supplied
urgencies: STAT,ASAP,PRE-OP,CALL RESULT,ADMIT,OUTPATIENT,PURPLE TRIANGLE
(or service-connected disability) and ROUTINE, each assigned a numerical
priority, with '1' for 'STAT' being highest priority, and '9' for
'ROUTINE' being the lowest priority.
NOTE: Workload logic uses a new class of urgencies which are prefixed with 'WKL-'.
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