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This aim of this study is to monitor the activity carried out in the emergency laboratory of Son Dureta University Hospital during the years 2000–2004 and to discuss the variations. This work is based on the the graphical comparison between the trends of indicators of analytical demand (tests/requests), (URV/requests), and (URV/tests) that represent the productivity of laboratory and also other indicators that associate emergency activities of the hospital with the laboratory (laboratory requests/emergencies), (tests/emergencies), and (URV/emergencies). The results show an inverse relationship between the hospital emergencies and laboratory. The hospital emergencies have decreased as there is a new hospital in Palma, on the other hand, the activity of the urgent laboratory has increased. The reason is due to the increase inpatient activity in new hospital areas: heart surgery, a significant increase of critical care, psychiatry, toxicology, etc. A trend to complexity is observed, that is due to the increase in indices: URV/tests, tests/emergencies, and URV/emergencies; that have arisen from the new diagnostic criteria for myocardial infarction. This has caused a large increase tropinin assays, the use of CRP as a sepsis marker and drug abuse testing to confirm the suspicion of drug taking. |
