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If a patient leaves your emergency department (ED) before the results of any test ordered by the emergency physician (EP) are back, the EP “still has an ethical and legal responsibility to the patient to utilize those results in directing their care, unless the EP has passed that patient’s care on in a very clear manner,” according to Robert Suter, DO, MHA, professor of emergency medicine at University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX.

Is Patient Leaving the ED Before Test Results Are Back?