Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values—a randomised controlled trial.
Etchells E, Adhikari NKJ, Cheung C, et al. Real-time clinical alerting: effect of an automated paging system on response time to critical laboratory values--a randomised controlled trial. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19(2):99-102. doi:10.1136/qshc.2008.028407.
Reporting critical laboratory results directly to physicians' pagers resulted in more rapid corrective action compared with reporting abnormal results by phone to the hospital ward.