October, 03 Prescribing Privileges for Optometrists Saskatchewan College of Pharmacists With the passage of The Pharmacy Act, 1996 and Bylaws, other legislation has become effective to provide optometrists with prescribing privileges.
Red cell distribution width (RDW) laboratory test is a part of a standard complete blood count (CBC), and it is used along with other RBC indices, especially mean corpuscular volume (MCV) to help determine the causes of anemia.ed cell distribution width (RDW) is a parameter that measures variation in red blood cell size or red blood cell volume.
Perhaps the most important test in complete blood count is hemoglobin level. RDW is also given by the labs when requesting CBC.