Results & Reports for Tests & Scans
Test and Scan Results
Your provider usually asks that results and reports be copied to your GP and other subspecialists who need to know.
The pathologist, radiologist, geneticist or other doctor conducting the test or scan assesses the results and reports these to your paediatrician and GP in writing via electronic messaging.
Urgent or Serious Results:
The Pathologist or other subspecialist will take extra steps to alert your paediatric specialist provider, usually by phone, if there are very urgent or serious findings.
If your paediatric provider believes that a result necessitates an urgent change of management, they will contact you or will arrange to meet with you in an appointment as soon as possible to discuss the finding, perhaps request further tests or referrals, or make changes to medications and other management.
Non-urgent or less serious results.
Other results and scans may require either no change of management or a non-urgent change. Your provider may be happy to discuss these when you next meet or may organise an appointment or email the results.