Medical Significance of Laboratory Results
| Autor: | Roy N. Barnett |
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| Rok vydání: | 1968 |
| Předmět: |
Blood Glucose
Medical education Medical knowledge Legislation Medical Time Factors Clinical Laboratory Techniques Bilirubin Legislation General Medicine Laboratory results Diagnostic aid United States Specimen Handling Test (assessment) Public interest Work (electrical) Salmonella Diabetes Mellitus Erythrocyte Count Methods Proficiency testing Calcium Business Hyperbilirubinemia |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Clinical Pathology. 50:671-676 |
| ISSN: | 1943-7722 0002-9173 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/ajcp/50.6.671 |
| Popis: | Tests performed in clinical laboratories are among the main diagnostic aids available to physicians. The great demand for these tests and the enormous number performed have led to wide public interest in the manner in which they are carried out. In turn, this interest has led to Federal specifications through legislation for clinical laboratories in two areas. One is the Medicare Act, to assure that Medicare beneficiaries receive proper services by setting standards for acceptable laboratories which may be paid under the act. The other is the Clinical Laboratories Improvement Act of 1967, to regulate the laboratories dealing in interstate commerce. Regulations under both acts set basic standards of operation and require participation in a proficiency testing program to help assure accurate laboratory results. Fundamental to consideration of proper accurate test results is the question: how accurate must clinical laboratory work be? There is no simple over-all answer to this question, and any answer that we find will be temporary, depending on the progress of medical knowledge and technology. The Standards Committee* of the College of American Pathologists, which has been the major proficiency surveying body in the United States for a number of years,t has been deeply involved in this question since |
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