December 2014—Why lab report formatting remains a work in progress: As a guiding principle, “form follows function” may be as appropriate for pathology reports as it was for 20th century architecture and industrial design. So, if the primary function of a lab report is to communicate diagnostic information, it should be designed and formatted to make it easy for the reader to assimilate data that will impact patient care. But achieving this result may require due diligence, say two pathologists who have embraced the cause of better-looking, more effective reports.
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