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How many symtoms are needed before a test is ordered? such as if you had sepsis
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Depends: Some symptoms are straight-forward and do not require testing such as a simple viral cold. If someone had something as serious and life-threatening as sepsis, he or she would be very ill and would need to be seen in a hospital/er for appropriate testing and evaluation.
Answered 5/17/2014
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