CASCADES BY CATEGORY         (CASCADES INDEX- By Number)




General Medical and Preventive Health:

•  1 – Routine Health Screening
•  2 – Preadmission Testing
•  3 – Chemistry Profile
•  23 – Sputum Cascade
•  29 – Liver Function Studies
•  31 – Nutritional Cascade
•  32 – Occult Blood in Adults
•  34 – Triage Rapid On-Site Drug Testing
•  35 – Preventive Pediatric Health Care

Endocrine Disease:
•  4 – Thyroid Function Testing
•  10 – Diagnosis of Diabetes Mellitus
•  11 – Screening for Diabetes Mellitus
•  12 – Hypercalcemia
•  13 – Thyroid Function Tests for Monitoring Treatment of Hypothyroidism & Hyperthyroidism
•  36 – Thyroid Nodule Management

Blood and Coagulation Disorders:
•  5 – Microcytic/Hypochromic Anemia
•  14 – Hemoglobin Electrophoresis
•  15 – Algorithm for Laboratory Investigation of Anemia
•  19 – Transfusion Therapy Guidelines
•  24 – Coagulation Cascade
•  28 – Hypercoagulabilty State
•  37 – Pernicious Anemia
•  38 – Laboratory Evaluation of Polycythemia
•  40 – Monoclonal Gammopathies

Cardiac and Lipid Disorders:
•  20 – Lipid Cascade
•  30 – Pediatric Lipids

 Infectious Disease:
•  7 – Tick Bourne Disease Cascade
•  9 – Pediatric Infectious Disease
•  18 – Urinary Tract Infections in Children
•  22 – Syphilis Serology
•  25 – Lyme Disease
•  27 – EBV & Other Mono Like Symptoms
•  33 – Inpatient Adult Diarrhea
•  39 – Hepatitis C

Genitourinary Disease:
•  6 – PSA Testing
•  16 – Guidelines for Adult Female UTI
•  17 – Pap Smear Screening and Follow-Up
•  21 – Male UTI Cascade

Metabolic Disease:
•  8 – Hemochromatosis/Iron Overload Disease
•  26 – Liver Cascade

Cancer Testing:
•  6 – PSA Testing
•  32 – Occult Blood in Adults
•  40 – Monoclonal Gammopathies

Pediatric Disease:

•  9 – Pediatric Infectious Disease
•  18 – Urinary Tract Infections in Children
•  30 – Pediatric Lipids
•  35 – Preventive Pediatric Health Care