Biochemia Medica, Vol. 20 No. 2, 2010.
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Quality and diagnostic perspectives in laboratory diagnostics
Mathias M. Müller
; Austrian Society of Quality Assurance and Standardisation, Vienna, Austria
Abstract
Laboratory diagnostics is a medical discipline playing an important part in patient management. In laboratory medicine meaningful, accurate and precise routine measurements are essential for diagnosis, risk assessment, treatment and follow-up of patients. The contribution of the diagnostic laboratory in the overall diagnostic process is app. 40-60%, depending on the kind of disease status investigated. The diagnostic laboratory uses nowadays more than 1.000 different tests mostly provided by the in vitro diagnostic industry.
Keywords
laboratory medicine; diagnostic process; pre-analytical phase; post-analytical phase
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53157
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Publication date:
4.6.2010.
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