MEDICAL BLOG · REPORT GUIDES
Understand common lab tests, report terms and questions to ask your clinician. Browse all medical report guides below.
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General education, not personal medical advice. For your own results, speak with a qualified clinician.
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Start with the layout and reference ranges, then prepare questions for your clinician.
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Compare venous and capillary blood samples, understand why a finger-prick reading is not always directly comparable, and prepare useful questions.
Read article : Venous vs Capillary Blood Samples: Why a Finger-Prick Result May DifferQNS means quantity not sufficient for a laboratory test. Understand missing results, sample-volume requirements and questions about repeat collection.
Read article : QNS on a Blood Test Report: Quantity Not Sufficient ExplainedLearn why a laboratory may describe a blood sample as lipemic or lipaemic, how cloudiness can interfere with testing, and what questions to ask.
Read article : Lipemic or Lipaemic Blood Sample: Why Cloudiness Can Affect a TestA haemolysed sample comment concerns red-cell breakdown and test reliability. Learn what the flag means and what to clarify with the laboratory.
Read article : Haemolysed Blood Sample: What the Laboratory Comment MeansUnderstand serum, plasma and whole blood on a lab report, why specimen labels matter, and what to ask before comparing results from different tests.
Read article : Serum vs Plasma in Blood Tests: Why the Specimen Label MattersRepeating one sample and checking it with another method answer different questions. Learn what to ask when a laboratory investigates an unexpected result.
Read article : Repeating a Lab Measurement vs Using Another Method: What Is Being Checked?Learn how free T4 differs from total T4, why their numbers cannot be compared directly, and which report details to keep for a thyroid-test review.
Read article : Free T4 vs Total T4: Why Two Thyroxine Results Are Not InterchangeableA reference interval and a clinical decision limit answer different questions. Learn which label a report uses and what to ask before judging a flag.
Read article : Reference Interval vs Clinical Decision Limit: Different Questions on a ReportLoD and LoQ describe different analytical limits. Learn why detected, not detected and below quantification should not be replaced with guessed numbers.
Read article : Limit of Detection vs Limit of Quantification: Reading Very Small ResultsBiotin can interfere with some laboratory methods. Learn what supplement information to give your care team without guessing a stopping or waiting period.
Read article : Biotin and Blood Tests: Why Your Supplement List Matters to the Laboratory