In-depth module guide

How to use the Laboratory Panel Dashboard

Use the Panel Dashboard when several results must be organized together. The dashboard gives the reporting laboratory range or flag priority over a general database interval.

GlobalRPh Internal Medicine illustration for building and reviewing a clinical laboratory panel
Clinical boundary: These guides explain how to use the application. They do not replace the reporting laboratory, a validated diagnostic pathway, or patient-specific clinical judgment.

Choose an entry method

  • Paste a report: include result, unit, range, and H/L flag when available.
  • Use a blank template: start with an electrolyte, renal, acid-base, refeeding, DKA/HHS, calcium/PTH, or other focused panel.
  • Use one-click buttons: add prompts such as LDL-C ___ mg/dL, then replace every blank before analysis.

Range hierarchy

  1. Range or target printed on the report.
  2. Reporting-laboratory H, L, normal, or critical flag.
  3. Range entered for the current review.
  4. Browser-saved local policy.
  5. Eligible general database interval.

When none can be selected safely, the dashboard asks for context instead of guessing.

How to read the dashboard

  • Review urgent or farther-outside-range results first, while remembering that the local critical-result policy controls.
  • Resolve unmatched tests and missing context.
  • Check duplicated analytes before accepting calculated insights.
  • Use the Disease Patterns transfer only after verifying the underlying results and directions.

Privacy and documentation

Do not paste names, dates of birth, record numbers, or other direct identifiers. The tool can copy, print, and export a structured summary, but the exported interpretation remains educational decision support.

Next step

Open the dedicated module and apply this workflow to the laboratory data while preserving the reporting laboratory's ranges, units, flags, and method context.