Yr-2013 Meeting of tests criteria Unique pts/month Pooled unique patients April 4742 142 89 May 4539 104 69 June 4331 146 69 July 4676 112 77 August 4615 134 78 September 4220 145 80 Total 27123 783 462   Meeting criteria = 2.9%   Unique Patients = 379

Table 2: The numbers of AST and ALT tests done in each month are listed. The total number of tests was 27,123 for an estimated yearly volume of 54,246. The number of episodes of testing meeting the criteria of AST-ALT ≥ 40 and AST/ALT ≥ 2.0 are given in column three. The number of unique patients accounting for these tests, in each month is given in column 4. Unique patient lists from each of the months were pooled and duplicates were eliminated, leaving a set of 379 patients who met the selection criteria. The clinical information about the patients, in the various months,was retained during the pooling process.